Chemical defense in the microplankton I: Feeding and growth rates of heterotrophic protists on the DMS-producing phytoplankter Emiliania huxleyi

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 217-229

  Strom, Suzanne ^a   Wolfe, Gordon ^b   Holmes, Jan ^a   Stecher, Hilmar ^c   Shimeneck, Carolyn ^a   Lambert, Sarah ^a   Moreno, Elizandro ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; DIMETHYLSULFIDE; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE; FOOD INTAKE; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; MICROPLANKTON; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ALGAE; AMPHIDINIUM LONGUM; CILIOPHORA; COCCOLITHOPHORACEAE; DINOPHYCEAE; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; PROTISTA;

EID: 0037252960     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.1.0217     Document Type: Article

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