Micro-grazer biomass, composition and distribution across prey resource and dissolved oxygen gradients in the far eastern tropical north Pacific Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 75, Issue , 2013, Pages 28-38

  Brady Olson, M ^a,b   Daly, Kendra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Dinoflagellates; Grazing; Micro grazers; Oxygen minimum zone

Indexed keywords

CILIATES; DINOFLAGELLATES; GRAZING; MICRO-GRAZERS; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; CILIATE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DINOFLAGELLATE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GRAZING PRESSURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PARADIGM SHIFT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

CILIOPHORA; DINOPHYCEAE; SPIROTRICHEA;

EID: 84874435012     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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