Saharan Dust Deposition Effects on the Microbial Food Web in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Study Based on a Mesocosm Experiment

Saharan Dust Deposition Effects on the Microbial Food Web in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Study Based on a Mesocosm Experiment

The effect of episodicity of Saharan dust deposition on the pelagic microbial food web was studied in the oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean by means of a mesocosm experiment in May 2014. Two different treatments in triplicates (addition of natural Saharan dust in a single-strong pulse or in three s...

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Main Authors: Paraskevi Pitta, Maria Kanakidou, Nikolaos Mihalopoulos, Sylvia Christodoulaki, Panagiotis D. Dimitriou, Constantin Frangoulis, Antonia Giannakourou, Margarita Kagiorgi, Anna Lagaria, Panagiota Nikolaou, Nafsika Papageorgiou, Stella Psarra, Ioulia Santi, Manolis Tsapakis, Anastasia Tsiola, Kalliopi Violaki, George Petihakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
natural Saharan dust
Eastern Mediterranean
mesocosm
plankton food web
grazing
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00117/full

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