Urea uptake kinetics of a midsummer planktonic community on the SW coast of Finland

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 130, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 201-211

  Tamminen, Timo ^a   Irmisch, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton; Baltic Sea; Inhibition; Nitrogen sources; Phytoplankton; Preference; Uptake kinetics; Urea

Indexed keywords

NUTRITION; PLANKTON; UPTAKE KINETICS; UREA;

FINLAND, (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 0029668982     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps130201     Document Type: Article

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