Marine zooplankton comprise a phylogenetically and functionally diverse assemblage of
protistan and metazoan consumers that occupy multiple trophic levels in pelagic food webs …

Predation in aquatic microbial food webs is dominated by phagotrophic protists, yet these
microorganisms are still understudied compared to bacteria and phytoplankton. In pelagic …

It would not have been possible for me to write the three editions of this book without a
double dose of extraordinary fortune: to have been part of the Woods Hole scientific …

Jefferson T. Turner (2004) The importance of small planktonic copepods and their roles in
pelagic marine food webs. Zoological Studies 43 (2): 255-266. Small planktonic marine …

A review of the literature (ca 1900 to 1992) on copepod feeding indicates that combinations
of stochashc and deterministic processes result in behaviors, or feeding strategies, that …

Recent investigations have shown that processes within the planktonic microbial web are of
great significance for the functioning of limnetic ecosystems. However, the general …

We show the results of a comparative, cross-ecosystem, analysis of the relative importance
of ciliates as carbon sources for copepod, and, specifically, evaluated the strength of the …

Ciliates are abundant and ubiquitous components of the marine plankton. Marine planktonic
ciliates include hundreds of species of loricate (shell-bearing) members of the suborder …

Predation is a major mortality factor of planktonic bacteria and an important sha** force for
the phenotypic and taxonomic structure of bacterial communities. In this paper we:(1) …

Research on “microbial loop” organisms, heterotrophic bacteria and phagotrophic protists,
has been stimulated in large measure by Pomeroy's seminal paper published in BioScience …