Evidence that dimethyl sulfide facilitates a tritrophic mutualism between marine primary producers and top predators

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4157-4161

  Savoca, Matthew S ^a   Nevitt, Gabrielle A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFIDE; IRON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL CUE; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; EXCRETION; FOOD WEB; FORAGER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRAZER; IRON KINETICS; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; SYMBIOSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CUES; DIET; FECES; FOOD CHAIN; IRON; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SULFIDES; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84896503906     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317120111     Document Type: Article

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