'Ghost nutrients' from fish farms are transferred up the food web by phytoplankton grazers

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 374, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-6

  Pitta, Paraskevi ^a   Tsapakis, Manolis ^a   Apostolaki, Eugenia T ^a   Tsagaraki, Tatiana ^a   Holmer, Marianne ^b   Karakassis, Ioannis ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Dialysis bags; Eutrophication; Fish farms; Mariculture; Nutrient loading; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EUTROPHICATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; MARICULTURE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; WATER COLUMN;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

CILIOPHORA;

EID: 60049092638     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07763     Document Type: Article

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