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| Authors: | Michael A. Gates |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, M5S 1A1 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Abstract: | No previous study of plankton in lakes has estimated the relative contribution of ciliated protozoa to the biomass of the total plankton community, including phytoplankton. In a series of south-central Ontario lakes, ciliates comprise on the order of 5 to 10% of the total planktonic biomass of these relatively oligotrophic lakes and exist there in densities of 20–40 ml−1. Therefore, ciliates constitute an important component of lake ecosystems that should not be ignored in limnological studies of zooplankton abundance and distribution. |
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| Keywords: | ciliated protozoa plankton planktonic biomass lake ecosystems |
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