Moderate increase in the biomass of omnivorous copepods may ease grazing control of planktonic algae

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 270, Issue , 2004, Pages 199-207

  Vadstein, Olav ^a   Stibor, Herwig ^b   Lippert, Bettina ^b   Løseth, Kjetil ^a   Roederer, Wendy ^b   Sundt Hansen, Line ^a   Olsen, Yngvar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algae; Ciliata; Copepoda; Grazing; Omnivory; Phytoplankton; Predation; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ALGAL BLOOM; ARTHROPOD; BIOMASS; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; OMNIVORY; PLANKTON; TROPHIC CONTROL;

ALGAE; ARTHROPODA; CILIOPHORA; COPEPODA;

EID: 2442565894     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps270199     Document Type: Article

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