Pelagic Tunicates: Unique Herbivores in the Marine Plankton
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 32 (8) , 655-663
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1308815
Abstract
The pelagic tunicates including salps, doliolids, and appendicularians exhibit higher feeding rates, greater retention of bacteria-sized food, and muKeywords
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