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The Filtering Rates of Four Herbivorous Crustaceans on Nannoplankton and Net Plankton Fractions in an Acid Lake in West Virginia
✍ Scribed by Anthony Janicki; John Decosta
- Book ID
- 102869890
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 701 KB
- Volume
- 69
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-2944
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✦ Synopsis
Four experiments were conducted in Cheat Lake, West Virginia, to determine the filtering rates of zooplankton on the size fractions of phytoplankton in an acid lake. The results showed that Bosrnina Zongirostris filtered significantly more net plankton than nannoplankton. Results for other species were not consistent in the size fraction selected. The dominance of Peridiniuni inconspicuum may have made the nannoplankton fraction unavailable as food for Bosrnina.