Heterotrophic dinoflagellates: a significant component of microzooplankton biomass and major grazers of diatoms in the sea

By E. Sherr, B. Sherr. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. A. Calbet
2. E. Sherr
3. B. Sherr
4. M. Landry
5. M. Boersma
6. N. Aberle
7. C. Meunier
8. K. Wiltshire

In Oceanography

1. A. Calbet
2. M. Landry
3. E. Sherr
4. B. Sherr
5. M. Boersma
6. C. Meunier
7. N. Aberle
8. K. Wiltshire

Citations in the corpus

• The role of ciliates, heterotrophic dinoflagellates and copepods in structuring spring plankton communities at Helgoland Roads, North Sea (2011, background): “Microzooplankton is able to compete with copepods for the same food and to exploit food stocks more efficiently due to their fast metabolic abilities and growth rates (Hansen 1992; Sherr and Sherr 2007; Aberle et al. 2007).”
• Phytoplankton growth, grazing and production balances in the HNLC equatorial Pacific (2011, background): “Dinoflagellates, in particular, as well as large ciliates, are efficient consumers of diatoms (Sherr and Sherr, 2007), and they were the grazers that responded to and eventually controlled the bloom of small pennate diatoms in IronEx II (Landry et al.”
• Capacity of herbivorous protists to control initiation and development of mass phytoplankton blooms (2009, background): “Calbet & Saiz (2005) and Sherr & Sherr (2007) noted several studies reporting that copepods selectively fed on heterotrophic dinoflagellates as well as on ciliates.”
• Feeding in the dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina: linking behaviour with mechanisms (2011, background): “It is now recognised that protists dominate grazing activities in aquatic microbial food webs (Sherr and Sherr, 2002; Sherr and Sherr, 2007) and are the main source of phytoplankton mortality in marine ecosystems, typically accounting for 60 to 70% of daily phytoplankton consumption (Calbet and…”
• Plankton in the open Mediterranean Sea: a review (2009, background): “…Protoperidiniumspp. and several athecate dinoflagellates in the generaGymnodinium, GyrodiniumandLessardiaare truly phagotrophic and may constitute a main part of the microzooplankton (Sherr and Sherr, 2007), but their importance in the offshore MS has rarely been assessed (seeMargalef, 1985).”
• Microbial processes in a high-latitude fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard): II. Ciliates and dinoflagellates (2011, background): “3b), mirroring the ability of dinoflagellates to efficiently feed on large-celled phytoplankton (Hansen 1991; Sherr and Sherr 2007).”
• The trophic roles of microzooplankton in marine systems (2008, background): “The feeding plasticity of this group allows them to ingest prey ranging in size from ca. 1 m m (Strom, 1991; Jeong et al ., 2005a) to several times their body size (Figure 3; Lessard, 1991; Hansen, 1992; Strom and Strom, 1996; Saito et al ., 2006; Sherr and Sherr, 2007).”
• Spring bloom dynamics in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard: nutrients, phytoplankton, protozoans and primary production (2012, background): “It is expected that the abundance of protozoans will be lower in a year with less accumulation of phytoplankton since the growth rate of heterotrophic protozoans is heavily reduced when food availability (Chla) is reduced (Sherr and Sherr 2007).”
• High-resolution sediment trap study of organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst production and biogenic si (2011, background): “Previous studies have suggested that heterotrophic dinoflagellates become more abundant when prey (i.e. diatoms, small flagellates, and bacteria) availability increases (e.g. Grattepanche et al., 2011; Hansen, 1991; Landry et al., 2000; Sherr and Sherr, 2007).”