Microzooplankton Community Structure and Grazing Impact along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Author: Price, Lori M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2012
• Subjects: Marine Biology; Oceanography; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Palmer Station; Palmer-Station; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617922; https://doi.org/10.25773/v5-8b8j-1h33; https://scholarworks.wm.edu/context/etd/article/3052/viewcontent/10632061.pdf

Microzooplankton (zooplankton 20 – 200 μm) are an integral part of aquatic food webs as they can be significant grazers of phytoplankton and bacteria, remineralizers of nutrients, and prey for higher trophic levels. The importance of microzooplankton in many pelagic ecosystems has been established,...