Ultrastructure, morphology and flux of microzooplankton faecal pellets in an east Antarctic fjord

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 245, Issue , 2002, Pages 133-148

  Beaumont, Karin L ^a,b   Nash, Geraldine V ^b   Davidson, Andrew T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Copepods; Faecal pellets; Flux; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

FECAL PELLET; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICULATE FLUX; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; ELLIS FJORD;

COPEPODA; HARPACTICOIDA; OITHONA; OITHONA SIMILIS; ONCAEA; ONCAEA CURVATA; PARALABIDOCERA ANTARCTICA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037132722     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps245133     Document Type: Article

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