Carbon transfer in herbivore-and microbial loop-dominated pelagic food webs in the southern Barents Sea during spring and summer

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 398, Issue , 2009, Pages 93-107

  De Laender, Frederik ^a   Van Oevelen, Dick ^a   Soetaert, Karline ^a   Middelburg, Jack J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Copepods; Food web; Gadus morhua; Microbial loop; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON BUDGET; CRUSTACEAN; FOOD WEB; GADOID; HERBIVORY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PREY PREFERENCE; PROTOZOAN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPEPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; GADUS MORHUA; MALLOTUS (FISH); MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 74049147787     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08335     Document Type: Article

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