Bacterial Grazing by Planktonic Lake Algae
- 31 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 231 (4737) , 493-495
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.231.4737.493
Abstract
Six common species of lake algae were found to ingest bacteria. The ingestion rates measured were of the same magnitude as those recorded for marine microflagellates totally dependent on external sources of carbon. A large biomass of Dinobryon species removed more bacteria from the water column of a lake than crustaceans, rotifers, and ciliates combined.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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