Mesozooplankton grazing effect on primary production: A global comparative analysis in marine ecosystems

By A. Calbet. 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. E. Saiz
2. A. Calbet
3. D. Steinberg
4. M. Landry
5. Kevin J. Flynn
6. Hongbin Liu
7. M. Dagg
8. E. Sherr

In Oceanography

1. A. Calbet
2. M. Landry
3. D. Steinberg
4. E. Saiz
5. M. Boersma
6. Hongbin Liu
7. Kwok-Fung Tang
8. E. Sherr

Citations in the corpus

• Biogeochemical fluxes through mesozooplankton (2006, unknown): “…the highest represented trophic level has the advantages of including their small, but significant direct grazing of primary production (about 10%, Calbet , 2001), and of representing the grazing mortality of microzooplankton in a dynamical way, rather than as a closure term, which would ignore…”
• Copepod guts as biogeochemical hotspots in the sea: Evidence from microelectrode profiling of Calanus spp (2011, background): “By consuming phytoplankton, microzooplankton, and detritus, they process a large percentage of the suspended particulate matters in the water column (Heinle et al. 1977; Gifford 1991; Calbet 2001).”
• Phytoplankton growth, microzooplankton grazing, and carbon cycling in marine systems (2004, background): “Large metazoans are not rendered irrelevant by a more uniform dominance of microherbivory in the oceans (Calbet 2001), but their different roles—as exporters of euphotic zone production, as trophic connections to fish stocks, and structuring agents of the marine plankton—need to be kept in…”
• The trophic roles of microzooplankton in marine systems (2008, background): “This value contrasts with the small overall impact of mesozoo-plankton (on average, 10% of the primary production consumed daily; Calbet, 2001).”
• The ciliate-copepod link in marine ecosystems (2005, methodology): “Applying the ciliate contribution to the copepod diet obtained in the present study (30% in carbon terms) to the Calbet (2001) phytoplankton consumption data set, we infer that 30 × 5.5/(100 – 30) = 2.4 GtCciliate yr–1 should be circulating through the ciliate-copepod (actually,…”
• Grazer‐induced chain length plasticity reduces grazing risk in a marine diatom (2012, background): “Grazing pressure on phytoplankton is high in the pelagic environment (Cyr and Pace 1993; Calbet 2001; Calbet and Landry 2004) and provides the evolutionary drive to develop defensive mechanisms that reduce grazing.”
• Linkage between crustacean zooplankton and aquatic bacteria (2010, background): “Globally it is estimated that 12% of the primary production is consumed, directly or indirectly, by metazoan zooplankton (Calbet 2001).”
• Plankton in the open Mediterranean Sea: a review (2009, background): “In fact, they constitute a resource for the zoobenthos of the underlying bottom (López et al., 1998; Zupo and Mazzocchi, 1998), for which winter is not a resting period (Coma et al., 2000), probably as an adaptation to the recurrent food rain from above (Duarte et al., 1999; Calbet, 2001).”
• Zooplankton and the Ocean Carbon Cycle. (2017, background): “…of production consumed by mesozooplankton varies inversely with system productivity, mean weight-specific grazing estimates are more than threefold higher (20% versus 6% of biomass per day) when production exceeds 1 g C m−2 d−1 compared with when it is less than 0.25 g C m−2 d−1 (Calbet 2001).”
• Phytoplankton blooms: a ‘loophole’ in microzooplankton grazing impact? (2005, background): “…McKeon, 2004), microzooplankton grazing is generally accepted as being the main predatory pressure on planktonic primary production, consuming 60–70% (Calbet and Landry, 2004), whereas mesozooplankton, and in particular copepods, consume in general 10–40% of the primary production (Calbet, 2001).”
• The role of ciliates, heterotrophic dinoflagellates and copepods in structuring spring plankton communities at Helgoland Roads, North Sea (2011, result): “Similar to the maximum values found by Dam and Peterson (1993), the average grazing impact of T. longicornis on the potential phytoplankton production we detected was 47% and therefore slightly higher than the 10–40% given by Calbet (2001) for copepods on a global scale.”
• Combined constraints on global ocean primary production using observations and models (2013, result): “Mesozooplankton grazing on phytoplankton [Calbet, 2001].”
• Quantifying carbon fluxes from primary production to mesopelagic fish using a simple food web model (2019, background): “It has been estimated that mesozooplankton directly consume 10–15% of PP (Behrenfeld and Falkowski, 1997; Calbet, 2001), giving a mid-range value of 12%.”