Avoidance, movement, and mortality: The interactions between a protistan grazer and Heterosigma akashiwo, a harmful algal bloom species

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 371-378

  Harvey, Elizabeth L ^a   Menden Deuer, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CILIATE; GRAZING PRESSURE; HETEROTROPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROALGA; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SALINITY; SURVIVAL; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; TOXIC ORGANISM; TOXICITY; WATER COLUMN;

ALGAE; CILIOPHORA; FAVELLA EHRENBERGII; HETEROSIGMA AKASHIWO; PROTISTA;

EID: 78651386535     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.1.0371     Document Type: Article

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