Food concentration-dependent regulation of food selectivity of interception-feeding bacterivorous nanoflagellates

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 195-202

  Boenigk, Jens ^a   Matz, Carsten ^a   Jürgens, Klaus ^a   Arndt, Hartmut ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ecology; Feeding process; Grazing; Microbial food web; Optimal foraging; Prey handling; Protists

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BICOSOECIDA; CAFETERIA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); OCHROMONAS; PROTISTA; SPUMELLA;

EID: 0037088106     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame027195     Document Type: Article

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