Top-down effects on the size-biomass distribution of a freshwater bacterioplankton community

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 255-263

  Pernthaler, Jakob ^a   Sattler, Birgit ^a   Šimek, Karel ^b   Schwarzenbacher, Angela ^a   Psenner, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bacterial biomass; Bacterioplankton size structure; Cell specific activity; Grazing resistant bacteria; Image analysis; Protistan size selectivity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA;

EID: 0001427264     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame010255     Document Type: Article

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