Short-term variation in abundance of bacteria and heterotrophic nanoflagellates in summer observed in Onagawa Bay, Japan

Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-29

  Tanaka, Tsuneo ^a   Taniguchi, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Heterotrophic nanoflagellates; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012753230     PISSN: 03878961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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