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Role of micro- and nanozooplankton in marine food webs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2011

Michèle Laval-Peuto ,
John F. Heinbokel ,
O. Roger Anderson ,
Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan  and
Barry F. Sherr
Michèle Laval-Peuto
Affiliation:
Groupe de Recherches Marines, Laboratoire de Protistologie Marine, Faculté des Sciences, Pare Valrose, 06034 Nice Cedex, France
John F. Heinbokel
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University, Shady Side Campus, Chesapeake Bay Institute, 4800 Atwell Road, Shady Side, MD 20764-0037
O. Roger Anderson
Affiliation:
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, U.S.A.
Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan
Affiliation:
Station Zoologique, UA 716 CNRS, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Barry F. Sherr
Affiliation:
University of Georgia, Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, GA 31327, U.S.A.
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Besides distinguishing between ‘zooplankton’ and ‘phytoplankton’, one of the more useful ways for oceanographers to classify planktonic organisms is by size (e.g. Sieburth et al., 1978). Of the free-living protozoa in the marine plankton, most fall into the ‘microplankton’ (20–200 μm, including many of the sarcodinans and ciliates as well as a number of larval metazoa and the larger phytoplankton) and ‘nanoplankton’ (2–20 μm, including the smaller ciliates and most of the heterotrophic flagellates as well as most of the phytoplankton).

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