A non-diatom plankton bloom controlled by copepod grazing and amphipod predation: Preliminary results from the LOHAFEX iron-fertilisation experiment.

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A non-diatom plankton bloom controlled by copepod grazing and amphipod predation: Preliminary results from the LOHAFEX iron-fertilisation experiment Maria Grazia Mazzocchi1, Humberto E. Gonzalez2, Pieter Vandromme3, Ines Borrione4, Maurizio Ribera d’Alcala1, Mangesh Gauns5, Philipp Assmy4,6, Bernhard Fuchs7, Christine Klaas4, Patrick Martin8, Marina Montresor1, Nagappa Ramaiah5, Wajih Naqvi5, Victor Smetacek4 1Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy (grazia@szn.it) 2Universidad Austral de Chile, Institute of Marine Biology, Valdivia, and COPAS Center of Oceanography, Concepcion, Chile 3Universite Paris 06, UMR 7093, LOV, Observatoire oceanologique, Villefranche-sur-mer, France 4Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany 5National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India 6Bremen International Graduate School for Marine Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany 7Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany 8National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK