Seasonal and spatial variations in heterotrophic nanoflagellate and bacteria abundances in sediments of a freshwater littoral zone

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 234-242

  Starink, Mathieu ^a   Bär Gilissen, Marie José ^a   Bak, Rolf P M ^b   Cappenberg, Thomas E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0029741955     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1996.41.2.0234     Document Type: Article

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