Effect of zooplankton-mediated trophic cascades on marine microbial food web components (bacteria, nanoflagellates, ciliates)

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 262-275

  Zöllner, Eckart ^a,b   Hoppe, Hans Georg ^b   Sommer, Ulrich ^b   Jürgens, Klaus ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; CILIATE; CRUSTACEAN; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLAGELLATE; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MESOCOSM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC CASCADE; ZOOPLANKTON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; COPEPODA; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 61649124891     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.1.0262     Document Type: Article

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