Mesozooplankton influences on the microbial food web: Direct and indirect trophic interactions in the oligotrophic open ocean

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1370-1380

  Calbet, Albert ^a   Landry, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; PHYTOPLANKTON; TROPHIC INTERACTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032837909     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.6.1370     Document Type: Article

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