Fragmentation of marine snow by swimming macrozooplankton: A new process impacting carbon cycling in the sea

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1227-1245

  Dilling, Lisa ^a   Alldredge, Alice L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregates; Disaggregation; Euphausia pacifica; Euphausiids; Macrozooplankton; Marine snow; Particle dynamics; Particle flux

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE SIZE; CARBON CYCLE; FRAGMENTATION; MARINE SNOW; ZOOPLANKTON;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EUPHAUSIA PACIFICA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 0034017189     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00105-3     Document Type: Article

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