Mesozooplankton grazing and primary production: Reply to the comment by Laws

4 pages, 1 figure, 1 tableIn his comment, Laws questions the conclusions of Calbet (2001) that the relative importance of mesozooplanktongrazing declines with increasing primary production (PP). The basis for his criticisms resides on the alleged inappropriate use of ordinary least-squares regression (so-called model I) analysis to model the relationship between PP and mesozooplankton grazing. According to Laws, because both PP and mesozooplankton grazing are subject to error, the useof model I regression results in an underestimation of thetrue slope of the relationship between both variables. [...]Peer Reviewe