Close coupling between phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in the western South China Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1084-1097

  Chen, Bingzhang ^a   Liu, Hongbin ^a   Landry, Michael R ^b   Dai, Minhan ^c   Huang, Bangqin ^c   Sun, Jun ^b,d  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT QUALITY; MICROPLANKTON; MORTALITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATOR; ZOOPLANKTON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 67650796132     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.4.1084     Document Type: Article

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