Microzooplankton grazing and phytoplankton growth in marine mesocosms with increased CO2 levels [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2008 Microzooplankton grazing and algae growth responses to increasing pCO2 levels (350, 700 and 1050 μatm) were investigated in nitrate and phosphate fertilized mesocosms during the PeECE III experiment 2005.
Y. Carotenuto +5 more
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Trophic upgrading and mobilization of wax esters in microzooplankton [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Heterotrophic protists play pivotal roles in aquatic ecosystems by transferring matter and energy, including lipids, from primary producers to higher trophic predators. Using Oxyrrhis marina as a model organism, changes to the non-saponifiable protist lipids were investigated under satiation and starvation conditions.
Keyana Roohani +7 more
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Distinct, Depth-Stratified Communities of Heterotrophic, Mixotrophic, and Parasitic Dinoflagellates and Ciliates in the Subarctic Northeast Pacific Euphotic Zone. [PDF]
J Eukaryot MicrobiolABSTRACT Dinoflagellates and ciliates are important grazers of primary production in the Northeast Pacific but knowledge of their taxonomic composition and depth‐distribution is limited. These organisms also display a variety of heterotrophic feeding modes including heterotrophy, mixotrophy, and parasitism.
Jones EL +5 more
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Microzooplankton Communities in a Changing Ocean: A Risk Assessment
Diversity, 2021 Microzooplankton communities are fundamental components of marine food webs and have the potential to impact the functioning of carbon pumps. The identification of common responses of microzooplankton to global change has been challenging due to their ...
M. Celeste López-Abbate
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Marine Ecology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Plankton play a key role in marine food webs by producing and transferring organic matter and energy to higher trophic levels. To define the trophic structure and interactions within the planktonic communities in the Gulf of Naples, we determined carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in particulate organic matter (POM, <20 μm ...
Louise Merquiol +2 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Ocean artificial upwelling has been suggested to boost primary production and increase harvestable resources such as fish. Yet, for this ecosystem-based approach to work, an effective energy transfer up the food web is required.
Kristian Spilling +9 more
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Seasonal and size-dependent variations in the phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in the southern South China Sea under the influence of the East Asian monsoon [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2015 To examine seasonal and size-dependent variations in the phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in oligotrophic tropical waters under the influence of seasonal reversing monsoon, dilution experiments were conducted during the summer of 2009 ...
L. Zhou, Y. Tan, L. Huang, Z. Hu, Z. Ke
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Grazing on Pfiesteria piscicida by microzooplankton [PDF]
Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 2000 The potential grazing pressure of natural assemblages of microzooplankton ( 2 d -1 in 6 out of 10 experiments. In previous studies, the maximum instantaneous rate of growth of NTZ was
DK Stoecker, K Stevens, DE Gustafson
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Microzooplankton growth rates examined across a temperature gradient in the Barents Sea. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Growth rates (µ) of abundant microzooplankton species were examined in field experiments conducted at ambient sea temperatures (-1.8-9.0°C) in the Barents Sea and adjacent waters (70-78.5°N).
Gayantonia Franzè, Peter J Lavrentyev
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Seasonal and spatial comparisons of phytoplankton growth and mortality rates due to microzooplankton grazing in the northern South China Sea [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2013 We conducted a comprehensive investigation on the microzooplankton herbivory effect on phytoplankton in the northern South China Sea (SCS) using the seawater dilution technique at surface and deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM) layers on two cruises (July ...
B. Chen +4 more
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