Microzooplankton grazing on nanoplankton in Potter Cove (Western Antarctic Peninsula) under contrasting exposure to glacier melting

GARCIA M.D.; LOPEZ ABATTE C.; HOFFMEYER M.S.; SCHLOSS I.R.

Berguen

Simposio; 6th Zooplankton Production Symposium; 2016

ICES

Microzooplankton in Polar Regions consumes more than 50% of daily primary production, being a significant pathway of biomass loss. Grazing by microzooplankton on autotrophic preys has been typically quantified by the dilution method. In this work, we use an alternative method based on the incubation of two size-fractions of plankton (