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+[[!meta title="Gelatinous larvacean zooplankton can enhance trophic transfer and carbon sequestration."]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura review]]
+
+Jaspers C, Hopcroft RR, Kiørboe T, Lombard F, López-Urrutia Á, Everett JD, Richardson AJ.
+
+Trends Ecol Evol. 2023 Oct;38(10):980-993. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2023.05.005
+
+Gelatinous larvacean zooplankton can enhance trophic transfer and carbon sequestration.
+
+[[!pmid 37277269 desc="Role of appendicularians in the biological pump to the
+sea floor. “Larvacean shunt” in the food chain."]]
Ecology
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+ - The ecological role of appendicularians was reviewed by [[Jaspers and coll,
+ 2023|biblio/37277269]].
- _O. dioica_ grazes on bacterioplankton, which can be a significant share
of its own diet, but the grazing has only “minimal influence on the
population dynamics of the free-living bacteria” ([[King, Hollibaugh and