Spatial and temporal investigations of protistan grazing impact on microbial communities in marine ecosystems

• Main Author: Connell, Paige Elizabeth
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL) 2017
• Subjects: Biology; microbial ecology; marine food webs; protistan grazing; protist; plankton; microzooplankton; herbivory; bacterivory; Chukchi Sea; Pacific; Catalina; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25549/usctheses-c40-437345; https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF162OL_X

Marine protists -- single-celled microbial eukaryotes -- are an extraordinarily diverse group of organisms that span a myriad of sizes, forms, and functions. These abundant organisms fulfill a wide array of ecological roles and are critical to the global cycling of key elements (e.g. C,N,P,S). Compl...