Chitin biomass and production in the marine environment

[en] The total production nof chitin has been tentatively calculated on the basis of original analytical data on chitin in zooplankton and in benthic communities growing on experimental substrates studied in the Mediterranean Sea, together with data in the literature dealing with total and exuviae production by krill and by some large crustacean species. It appears that crustaceans are the main chitin producers both in planktonic and benthic ecosystems, and that mean total production of chitin in the whole marine biocycle is at least of 2,3 billion metric tons per year.

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Environmental sciences & ecology

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Jeuniaux, Charles ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Laboratories of morphology, systematics and animal ecology

Voss-Foucart, Marie Françoise; Université de Liège - ULiège > Laboratories of morphology, systematics and animal ecology

Language :

English

Title :

Chitin biomass and production in the marine environment

Publication date :

1991

Journal title :

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

ISSN :

0305-1978

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Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science

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Issue :

Pages :

347-356

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