Functional responses of aggregate-colonizing copepods
The article quantifies the functional response of feeding of three aggregate-colonizing copepods on different types of aggregates. This is important, since these organisms feed on sinking particles such as marine snow, and can therefore have a large effect on the attenuation of vertical flux. The pr...
| Published in: | Limnology and Oceanography |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Zenodo
2022
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12187 |
| Summary: | The article quantifies the functional response of feeding of three aggregate-colonizing copepods on different types of aggregates. This is important, since these organisms feed on sinking particles such as marine snow, and can therefore have a large effect on the attenuation of vertical flux. The process of aggregate-feeding is expected to be important for the efficiency of the biological pump, but is neither well understood not quantified. Our article sheds light on the copepod-aggregate interactions and provides the range for the feeding rates thatthese copepods can have on different types of aggregates. |
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