Feeding on copepod fecal pellets: A new trophic role of dinoflagellates as detritivores

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 441, Issue , 2011, Pages 65-77

  Poulsen, Louise K ^a   Moldrup, Morten ^b   Berge, Terje ^b   Hansen, Per Juel ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Chemosensory response; Detection distance; Detritivorous feeding; Fecal pellet degradation; Fecal pellet grazing; Microzooplankton

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CRUSTACEAN; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; HETEROTROPHY; MIXOTROPHY; SENSORY SYSTEM; TROPHIC LEVEL; VIDEOGRAPHY; WATER COLUMN;

ACARTIA TONSA; ARMIGER; COPEPODA; DINOPHYCEAE; DIPLOPSALIS LENTICULA; GYRODINIUM DOMINANS; GYRODINIUM SPIRALE; KARLODINIUM; PROTOPERIDINIUM DEPRESSUM; PROTOZOA; RHODOMONAS SALINA;

EID: 81255123297     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09357     Document Type: Article

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