Nanoflagellate predation on auto- and heterotrophic picoplankton in the oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1297-1310

  Christaki, Urania ^a   Giannakourou, Antonia ^a   Van Wambeke, France ^b   Grégori, Gérald ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; EUPHOTIC ZONE; HETEROTROPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEASON;

BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; GRAZING; PICOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0035194320     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/23.11.1297     Document Type: Article

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