Importance of Picoplankton in Lake Superior
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
- Vol. 43 (1) , 235-240
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f86-028
Abstract
In Lake Superior, approximately 50% of total primary production is attributable to phytoplankton that pass through a 3-μm screen. The −1, maximum photosynthetic rates of 7 and 6 fg∙cell−1∙h−1, and growth rates of 1.5 and 0.8∙d−1 in the epilimnion and hypolimnion, respectively. A significant portion of this picoplankton (<1 μm) production may be consumed by heterotrophic protozoans in a "microbial loop."This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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