Production and fate of faecal pellets during summer in an East Antarctic fjord

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 453-454, Issue , 2001, Pages 55-65

  Beaumont, K L ^a,b   Plummer, A J ^c   Hosie, G W ^b   Ritz, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic fjord; Copepods; Faecal pellets; Recycling; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

ICE; PRODUCTION; SEDIMENTATION;

PELLETS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

FECAL PELLET; MARINE SNOW; RECYCLING; SEDIMENTATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANTARCTICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; COPEPODA; CRYPTOPHYTA; OITHONA; OITHONA SIMILIS; ONCAEA; ONCAEA CURVATA;

EID: 0035877898     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013103630883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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