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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 18 | NUMBER 6 | PAGES 1063-1071 | 1996
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Planktonic ciliates in the northwestern Indian Ocean: their abundance and biomass in waters of contrasting productivity

R.J.G. Leakey1, P.H. Burkill1 and M.A. Sleigh2

1Plymouth Marine Laboratory Prospect Place, West Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH 2Department of Biology, University of Southampton, Medical and Biological Sciences Building Bassett Crescent East, Southampton, SO16 7PX, UK

Received on September 1, 1995; accepted on January 25, 1996

The abundance and biomass of planktonic ciliates in the northwestern Indian Ocean ranged from 31 l–1 and 0.1 µg C l–1 in oligotrophic open-ocean waters to 823 l–1 and 1.2 µg C l–1 in more productive waters of the equator, northern Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman.

3Present address: British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 OET, UK


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