Planktonic ciliate communities in a semi-enclosed bay of Yellow Sea, northern China: Annual cycle

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-105

  Jiang, Yong ^a   Xu, Henglong ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^b   Warren, Alan ^c   Hu, Xiaozhong ^a   Song, Weibo ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

annual cycle; Jiaozhou Bay; marine microbial ecology; planktonic ciliate

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL CYCLE; BIOMASS; CILIATE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

CHINA; JIAOZHOU BAY; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHANDONG; YELLOW SEA;

CILIOPHORA; CYRTOPHORIDA; HAPTORIDA; HYPOTRICHIA; OLIGOTRICHIA; PROTISTA; TINTINNIDA;

EID: 79951725513     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002531541000175X     Document Type: Article

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