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The reliability of grazing rate estimates from dilution experiments: Have we over-estimated rates of organic carbon consumption by microzooplankton?
J. R. Dolan,
Marine Microbial Ecology Group, Laboratoire Oéanographique de Villefranche, CNRS UMR 7093, Université Paris VI, Station Zoologique, B P 28, F-06230 Villefranche-Sur-Mer, France
K. McKeon
Marine Microbial Ecology Group, Laboratoire Oéanographique de Villefranche, CNRS UMR 7093, Université Paris VI, Station Zoologique, B P 28, F-06230 Villefranche-Sur-Mer, France
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