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Science 28 July 1978:
Vol. 201. no. 4353, pp. 371 - 373
DOI: 10.1126/science.201.4353.371
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Marine Snow: Microplankton Habitat and Source of Small-Scale Patchiness in Pelagic Populations

MARY WILCOX SILVER 1, ALAN L. SHANKS 2, and JONATHAN D. TRENT 2

1 Center for Coastal Marine Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064
2 Marine Life Research Group, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92037

In near-surface waters of the neritic zone, the fragile aggregate material called "marine snow" is enriched by a variety of planktonic organisms and detrital products of plankton. Here marine snow is a source of patchiness and taxonomic diversity for microplankton populations and is a likely food resource and recycling agent for fecal particles.

Submitted on December 2, 1977
Revised on February 8, 1978


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