Bacterial dynamics in the upper St. Lawrence estuary

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1610-1618

  Painchaud, Jean ^a,c   Lefaivre, Denis ^b   Therriault, Jean Claude ^b   Legendre, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c Min l'Environnement et de la Faune   (Canada)

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EID: 0000603113     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1996.41.8.1610     Document Type: Article

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