Resource patch formation and exploitation throughout the marine microbial food web

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Seymour, J R ^a   Marcos, ^a   Stocker, R ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Chemotaxis; Flagellate; Phytoplankton; Planktonic; Resource patch

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; CARBON FLUX; FLAGELLATE; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATION; SWIMMING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLAGELLATE; FOOD CHAIN; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; KINETOPLASTIDA; MICROFLUIDICS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; SEAWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DUNALIELLA TERTIOLECTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); NEOBODO DESIGNIS; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS HALOPLANKTIS;

EID: 58749097630     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/593004     Document Type: Article

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