Elaine Fileman

Plankton Ecologist
Environmental Science
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
United Kingdom

Biography

Elaine Fileman is a Plankton Ecologist at PML with more than 20 years’ research experience in the ecology of microzooplankton and their trophic interactions in the marine food web. Her research interests include the structure and diversity of microzooplankton communities, their role in controlling phytoplankton population growth, their role as a food source for higher trophic levels (in particular copepods and meroplankton) and the transfer of compounds (such as photo-protective MAAs) from the phytoplankton through to micro- and mesozooplankton.

Research Intrest

Structure and diversity of microzooplankton communities and their role in controlling phytoplankton population growth.

List of Publications
Fileman ES, Smith T and Harris RP (2007) Grazing by Calanus helgolandicus and Para_Pseudocalanus spp. on phytoplankton and protozooplankton during the spring bloom in the Celtic Sea. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology 348 :70-84.
Fileman E, Petropavlovsky A and Harris R (2010) Grazing by the copepods Calanus helgolandicus and Acartia clausi on the protozooplankton community at station L4 in the Western English Channel. Journal of Plankton Research 32:709-724.
Fileman ES, Fitzgeorge- Balfour T, Tarran G and Harris RP (2011) Plankton community diversity from bacteria to copepods in bloom and non-bloom conditions in the Celtic Sea in spring. Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science 93: 403-414.