Bacterial abundance, biomass, and production in relation to phytoplankton biomass in the levantine basin of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 137, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 273-281

  Robarts, Richard D ^a   Zohary, Tamar ^b   Waiser, Marley J ^a   Yacobi, Y Z ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial biomass; Bacterial production; Mediterranean Sea; Oligotrophic ocean; Thymidine incorporation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SECONDARY PRODUCTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA, LEVANTINE BASIN;

EID: 0029669633     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps137273     Document Type: Article

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