Trophic efficiency of plankton food webs: Observations from the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Bay, Southeast Coast of India

Mesozooplankton production, grazing and respiration in the Bay of Bengal: Implications for net heterotrophy

“…Some authors (Madhupratap et al 1996;Jyothibabu et al 2008) have frequently attributed the enhanced zooplankton stocks during SpIM to the microbial loop which dominates during this season in seas around India, when water column is thermally stratified. The same phenomenon was observed recently off the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay in the southern Bay of Bengal (Anjusha et al 2013). There are not many studies reporting the seasonal variability in zooplankton biomass from the tropical open oceans.…”

Phytoplankton size structure in the southern Bay of Bengal modified by the Summer Monsoon Current and associated eddies: Implications on the vertical biogenic flux

“…Earlier studies conducted in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal evidence that the larger phytoplankton fraction is mostly composed of larger diatoms and dinoflagellates whereas smaller diatoms, smaller dinoflagellates, silicoflagellates, Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus mostly contribute the smaller fractions (Sawant and Madhupratap, 1996;Madhu et al, 2006;Jyothibabu et al, 2008a & b;Paul et al, 2008;Jyothibabu et al, 2013;Anjusha et al, 2013). The phytoplankton size structure and associated plankton food web has great significance in deciding the vertical biogenic carbon flux in marine environments.…”

Global Systematic Review of Methodological Approaches to Analyze Coastal Shelf Food Webs

“…Destructive sampling techniques were mostly fisheries-based, using various types of benthic and pelagic fisheries tools, such as beam trawls (Jennings et al, 2002;Brind'Amour et al, 2009;Bell et al, 2016), otter trawls (Koulouri et al, 2015;Bell et al, 2016), plankton nets (Blachowiak-Samolyk et al, 2007;Anjusha et al, 2013;Caron et al, 2017), fyke nets (Thollot et al, 1999;Bergström et al, 2016), gillnets (Di Beneditto et al, 2012;Prado et al, 2014;Donadi et al, 2017), seine nets (Faye et al, 2011), bottom dredges (Jennings et al, 2001), crab traps (Mancinelli et al, 2013), and eel traps (Heldal et al, 2018). Other particular sampling techniques included infauna sampling with VanVeen and Smith-McIntyre grabs (Soto and Escobar-Briones, 1995;Dunton et al, 2012;Whalen et al, 2013;Lovvorn et al, 2015;Tu et al, 2015;Misic et al, 2016) and USNEL box corer (Tselepides et al, 2000), scraping of rocky surfaces with chisel for the collection of algae and benthic invertebrates (Lin et al, 1999;Kroeker et al, 2011), manual hand collection of macroinvertebrates by means of SCUBA diving (Tewfik et al, 2005;O'Gorman et al, 2008;Wing et al, 2018), as well as experimental dynamite fishing (Hansen et al, 2012).…”