Aldehyde suppression of copepod recruitment in blooms of a ubiquitous planktonic diatom

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6990, 2004, Pages 403-407

  Ianora, Adrianna ^a   Miralto, Antonio ^a   Poulet, Serge A ^b   Carotenuto, Ylenia ^a   Buttino, Isabella ^a   Romano, Giovanna ^a   Casotti, Raffaella ^a   Pohnert, Georg ^c   Wichard, Thomas ^c   Colucci D'Amato, Luca ^d   Terrazzano, Giuseppe ^e   Smetacek, Victor ^f  

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^f ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; CELLS; ENZYMES; FATTY ACIDS;

BLOOMS; UNGRAZED CELLS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALDEHYDE;

ALDEHYDE; ALGAL BLOOM; DIATOM;

ALGAL BLOOM; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; COPEPOD; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH; HERBIVORY; LARVA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOGENICITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALDEHYDES; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOMASS; COPEPODA; DIATOMS; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS; LARVA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEAWATER;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; COPEPODA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 2642558839     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02526     Document Type: Article

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