The ciliate-copepod link in marine ecosystems

By A. Calbet, E. Saiz. 2005

527 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Ecology

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

In Global and Planetary Change

1. E. Saiz
2. A. Calbet
3. M. Landry
4. D. Steinberg
5. Aditee Mitra
6. Kevin J. Flynn
7. P. Glibert
8. S. Nicol

In Oceanography

1. A. Calbet
2. E. Saiz
3. P. Glibert
4. M. Landry
5. C. Gobler
6. J. Burkholder
7. D. Steinberg
8. Aditee Mitra

Citations in the corpus

• Morphology and Ecology in Tintinnid Ciliates of the Marine Plankton: Correlates of Lorica Dimensions (2010, unknown): “While tintinnids are subject to predation by a wide variety of organisms, most of the existing data concerns copepods for which ciliate microzooplankton are known to be important prey (Calbet and Saiz 2005).”
• The trophodynamics of marine top predators: Current knowledge, recent advances and challenges (2015, background): “In food webs with picophytoplankton as the dominant components of the primary production, approximately 50% of the autotrophic energy that enters the “copepod pathway” occurs via omnivorous feeding on microzooplankton rather than direct grazing (Calbet et al., 2005; Calbet and Saiz, 2005).”
• Quantitative PCR to estimate copepod feeding (2008, unknown): “…as prey for copepods (Stoecker and Capuzzo 1990; Kleppel 1993; Fessenden and Cowles 1994; e.g. Atkinson 1996; Nejstgaard et al. 1997; Levinsen et al. 2000; Calbet and Saiz 2005), the ability to directly investigate feeding on non-pigmented organisms by copepods is of considerable importance.”
• Effect of zooplankton‐mediated trophic cascades on marine microbial food web components (bacteria, nanoflagellates, ciliates) (2009, background): “Furthermore, it has been demonstrated in various systems that copepod predation can control the number of planktonic ciliates (Kiørboe 1997; Calbet and Saiz 2005).”
• The relative importance of microbial and classical food webs in a highly productive coastal upwelling area (2007, background): “…appendicularians), the combined feeding activity of zooplankton either directly (phytoplankton) or indirectly (microbial pathway) may increase the fraction of PP reaching the zooplankton (despite the low efficiency of this pathway) and, therefore, at upper trophic levels (see Calbet and Saiz 2005).”
• Zooplankton and the Ocean Carbon Cycle. (2017, background): “Most copepods operate as omnivorous suspension feeders that prey broadly on heterotrophic protists, small animals (e.g., eggs and nauplii), and likely detritus, in addition to phytoplankton (Sherr et al. 1986, Stoecker & Capuzzo 1990, Calbet & Saiz 2005).”
• Misuse of the phytoplankton-zooplankton dichotomy : the need to assign organisms as mixotrophs within plankton functional types (2013, background): “…that undertaken by mesozooplankton (Calbet and Landry, 2004), and that copepods (and their allies) obtain much of their food by grazing on protists (Calbet and Saiz, 2005; Fileman et al., 2010), it is the copepods that are still typically accorded the term “herbivore”, suggesting that they are…”
• Capacity of herbivorous protists to control initiation and development of mass phytoplankton blooms (2009, background): “However, the 6 Sherr & Sherr: Protistan control of phytoplankton blooms potential for microzooplankton to curtail bloom biomass is likely constrained in natural systems due to top-down control (Smetacek 1981, Tillmann 2004, Calbet & Saiz 2005, Irigoien et al. 2004).”
• Acquired phototrophy in aquatic protists (2009, background): “Planktonic ciliates are an important source of food for copepods in marine ecosystems (reviewed in Calbet & Saiz 2005).”
• A comparison of anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and sardine (Sardina pilchardus) larvae feeding in the Northwest Mediterranean: influence of prey availability and ontogeny (2010, background): “In anchovy, this value was similar to that previously reported in the Northwest Mediterranean (Tudela et al., 2002).”
• The trophic roles of microzooplankton in marine systems (2008, background): “It is now clear that microzooplankton are relevant contributors to the diet of copepods (see reviews by Calbet and Saiz, 2005; Sherr and Sherr, 2007).”
• Seasonal microbial processes in a high-latitude fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard): I. Heterotrophic bacteria, picoplankton and nanoflagellates (2011, background): “Relatively low biomass of protozooplankton further suggests that mesozooplankton also preyed upon this functional group, a well-established link (Calbet and Saiz 2005), with regulatory impact also in Arctic regions (Levinsen and Nielsen 2002).”
• The role of ciliates, heterotrophic dinoflagellates and copepods in structuring spring plankton communities at Helgoland Roads, North Sea (2011, background): “Furthermore, microzooplankton facilitates the rapid recycling of nutrients back to primary producers (Calbet and Saiz 2005; Irigoien et al. 2005).”