Planktonic grazers are a potentially important source of marine dissolved organic carbon

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1364-1374

  Strom, Suzanne L ^a   Benner, Ronald ^b   Ziegler, Susan ^b   Dagg, Michael J ^c  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Louisiana Universities Mar C   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; GRAZING; HERBIVORY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALANUS PACIFICUS; CILIOPHORA; COPEPODA; DINOPHYCEAE; OXYRRHIS MARINA; PROTISTA; STROMBIDINOPSIS; STROMBIDINOPSIS ACUMINATUM;

EID: 0031399685     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.6.1364     Document Type: Article

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