Heterotrophic dinoflagellates, cyclopoid copepods and appendicularians: Their ecological importance in the energy flow of coastal ecosystem

Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-77

  Nakamura, Yasuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

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