Autotrophic carbon sources for heterotrophic bacterioplankton in a floodplain lake of central Amazon

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 341, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-36

  Waichman, Andrea Viviana ^a  

^a Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; bacteria; floodplain lakes; macrophytes; stable carbon isotopes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AQUATIC MACROPHYTE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CARBON SOURCES; FLOODPLAIN LAKE; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIOPLANKTON; PHYTOPLANKTON;

BRAZIL, AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA, AMAZONIA;

EID: 0030299141     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00012300     Document Type: Article

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