The Role of Protistan Microzooplankton in the Upper San Francisco Estuary Planktonic Food Web: Source or Sink?

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1026-1038

  Rollwagen Bollens, Gretchen ^a   Gifford, Scott ^b   Bollens, Stephen M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dilution experiment; Grazing; Grazing impact; Microzooplankton; Protist plankton; San Francisco Estuary

Indexed keywords

METAZOA; PISCES; PROTISTA;

EID: 79960842386     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-011-9374-x     Document Type: Note

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