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Role of micro- and nanozooplankton in marine food webs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2011
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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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