Omnivory and predation impact of the calanoid copepod Boeckella poppei in a maritime Antarctic lake

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Butler, Helen, Atkinson, Angus, Gordon, Marina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2005
• Subjects: Zoology; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; Boeckella; Sombre Lake; South Orkney Islands; Antarc*; Polar Biology; Copepods
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1676/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-005-0014-4

The copepod Boeckella poppei is a major species in high latitude lakes of the Southern Hemisphere. In such lakes the reduced diversity of metazoans contrasts with a rich microbial assemblage, making these systems amenable to the study of predation controls on the microbial food web. However, the die...