On the trophic coupling between protists and copepods in arctic marine ecosystems

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 204, Issue , 2000, Pages 65-77

  Levinsen, H ^a   Turner, J T ^a   Nielsen, T G ^a   Hansen, B W ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acartia longiremis; Arctic; Calanus spp.; Ciliates; Heterotrophic dinoflagellates; Omnivory; Particle spectra; Plankton food web; Trophic coupling

Indexed keywords

CLEARANCE RATE; GRAZING; PROTIST; SIZE EFFECT; TROPHIC INTERACTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

DISKO BAY; GREENLAND; YOUNG SOUND;

ACARTIA LONGIREMIS; CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; CALANUS GLACIALIS; CALANUS HYPERBOREUS; COPEPODA; PHAEOCYSTIS;

EID: 0034609925     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps204065     Document Type: Article

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