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

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 …

We present an analysis of the global impact of microplanktonic grazers on marine
phytoplankton and its implications for remineralization processes in the microbial …

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

Here we review all published data on phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing
using the dilution technique to better understand the role of this group of grazers in different …

The standard dilution technique can provide unbiased estimates of phytoplankton growth
and microzooplankton grazing rates only when certain restrictive assumptions are met. The …

The aim of th~ s study was to quantify zooplankton feeding interactions and copepod
reproduction dunng blooms of dlatoms and flagellates (lncludlng Em~ llan~ a huxleyl) In …

Dilution of natural microbial plankton communities with particle-free water from the same
source can be used, under appropriate conditions, to estimate instantaneous rates of growth …

Phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing were measured in two productive
coastal regions of the North Pacific: northern Puget Sound and the coastal Gulf of Alaska …

Dilution experiments were used to examine growth and grazing mortality rates among
Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus populations in the Sargasso Sea and California …