High turnover rates of copepod fecal pellets due to Noctiluca scintillans grazing

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 258, Issue , 2003, Pages 181-188

  Kiørboe, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Copepod fecal pellets; Flux; Pellet grazing; Turnover

Indexed keywords

CLEARANCE RATE; DINOFLAGELLATE; FECAL PELLET; GRAZING; REMINERALIZATION; TURNOVER; ZOOPLANKTON;

(SOUTHWEST); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

COPEPODA; DINOPHYCEAE; NOCTILUCA SCINTILLANS;

EID: 0141450597     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps258181     Document Type: Article

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