JPR Advance Access originally published online on January 15, 2009
Journal of Plankton Research 2009 31(4):459-463; doi:10.1093/plankt/fbn131
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Assimilation of 14C-labelled zooplankton benthic eggs by macrobenthos
1 Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Finnish Institute of Marine Research, PO Box 2, 00561 Helsinki, Finland
* CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: agnes{at}ecology.su.se
Received on October 7, 2008; accepted on December 12, 2008
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We demonstrate consumption and assimilation of carbon from copepod benthic eggs by sediment-dwelling macrofauna in a four-step 14C -labelling experiment (algae>copepods>eggs>macrofauna).
Corresponding editor: Mark J. Gibbons