Sources of dissolved organic carbon supporting planktonic bacterial production in the tidal freshwater Hudson river

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 227-239

  Findlay, Stuart ^a   Sinsabaugh, Robert L ^b   Fischer, David T ^a   Franchini, Paula ^b  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial production; Bioassay; Dissolved organic carbon; Extracellular enzymes; Riverine

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001033333     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900018     Document Type: Article

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