Planktonic protist communities in semi-enclosed mariculture waters: Temporal dynamics of functional groups and their responses to environmental conditions

Acta Oceanologica Sinica

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 106-115

  Xu, Henglong ^a   Warren, Alan ^b   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^c   Zhu, Mingzhuang ^a   Song, Weibo ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

environmental stress; functional group; marimculture; microbial ecology; planktonic protists

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PROTISTA; RAPTORES;

EID: 78149365951     PISSN: 0253505X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13131-010-0055-6     Document Type: Article

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