Microplankton community structure and the impact of microzooplankton grazing during an Emiliania huxleyi bloom, off the Devon coast

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 359-368

  Fileman, E S ^a   Cummings, D G ^a   Llewellyn, C A ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GRAZING; MICROPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; CRYPTOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036621334     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315402005593     Document Type: Article

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