Down-mixing of phytoplankton above filter-feeding mussels - Interplay between water flow and biomixing

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 314, Issue , 2006, Pages 77-88

  Lassen, Johan ^a   Kortegård, Martin ^a   Riisgård, Hans Ulrik ^a   Friedrichs, Michael ^b   Graf, Gerhard ^b   Larsen, Poul S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Exhalant jets; Filtration activity; Flume; Grazing impact; Mytilus edulis; Refiltration; Turbulent mixing

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; FILTER FEEDING; GRAZING PRESSURE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SHEAR STRESS; WATER FLOW;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 33745601381     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps314077     Document Type: Article

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