Trophic significance of solitary cells of the prymnesiophyte Phaeocystis globosa depends on cell type

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1230-1238

  Dutz, Jörg ^a,c   Koski, Marja ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; SURVIVAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PHAEOCYSTIS; PHAEOCYSTIS GLOBOSA; RHODOMONAS SP.; TEMORA LONGICORNIS;

EID: 33744901690     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.3.1230     Document Type: Article

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