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Grazing by 35 to 202 μm micro-zooplankton in Long Island Sound

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Micro-zooplankton abundance in Long Island Sound varied from 103 to 104 animals l-1 at the station studied and consisted almost entirely of tintinnids. The micro-zooplankton were found to sometimes remove a significant portion of the chlorophyll a standing stock, with an upper limit of 41% of the standing stock being ingested per day. Observed ingestion rates ranged from 0.001 to 0.17 ng chlorophyll a removed animal-1 h-1 and from 0.06 to 87 cells removed animal-1 h-1, depending on season and type of cell being ingested. Filtering rates varied from 1.03 to 84.7 μl animal-1 h-1. As a community, the micro-zooplankton exhibited the same order of magnitude ingestion and filtering rates as those noted for copepods.

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  1. Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794, Stony Brook, New York, USA

    G. M. Capriulo & E. J. Carpenter

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Communicated by I. Morris, West Boothbay Harbor

Contribution No. 259 of the Marine Sciences Center

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Capriulo, G.M., Carpenter, E.J. Grazing by 35 to 202 μm micro-zooplankton in Long Island Sound. Mar. Biol. 56, 319–326 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00386870

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