Consequences of protist-stimulated bacterial production for estimating protist growth efficiencies

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 341, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 113-123

  Snyder, Richard A ^a   Hoch, Matthew P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^c VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

activity; bacteria; ciliate; flagellate; growth; protist

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PRODUCTION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PROTIST; TROPHIC ECOLOGY;

USA, FLORIDA;

VIBRIO NATRIEGENS;

EID: 0030301812     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00018115     Document Type: Article

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