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Zooplankton Grazing on Bacteria

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Book cover Microbial Ecology of Lake Plußsee

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 105))

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The interrelationship of zooplankton and bacteria in the limnic food chain has become of increasing interest. Numerous authors have investigated the grazing of different groups of zooplankton on freshwater bacteria: ciliates (Taylor and Berger 1976, Taylor 1978,1979), rotifers (Dougherty et al. 1960, Pilarska 1977, Starkweather et al. 1979, Bogdan and Gilbert 1982, Pourriot 1980, Starkweather 1980), cladocerans (McMahon and Rigler 1963,1965, Fenchel 1980,Haney 1973,Gophenetal. 1974,Lampert 1974, Kerfoot and DeMott 1980, Hadas et al. 1982, 1983, Pace et al. 1983), and copepods (Malovitskaya and Sorokin 1961, Rieper 1978). The predatory pressure on natural assemblages of bacteria caused by zooplankton communities has also been investigated (Gliwicz 1969, Haney 1973, Crisman et al. 1981, Pace and Orcutt 1981, Pedrós-Alió and Brock 1983). Of special interest is the impact of microzooplankton (heterotrophic nanoflagellates, protozoa) grazing on bacteria (Sherr et al. 1987), which is described in Chapter 12 (this volume).

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  1. Department of Microbial Ecology, Max-Planck Institute for Limnology, August-Thienemann Strasse 2, Postfach 165, D-24302, Plön, Germany

    Jürgen Overbeck

  2. Microbial Ecology Department, University of Warsaw, ul. Karowa 18, PL-00-927, Warsaw 64, Poland

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Bemmer, A., Overbeck, J. (1994). Zooplankton Grazing on Bacteria. In: Overbeck, J., Chróst, R.J. (eds) Microbial Ecology of Lake Plußsee. Ecological Studies, vol 105. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2606-2_11

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