Inorganic nutrient limitation of oceanic bacterioplankton

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 730-740

  Rivkin, Richard B ^a   Anderson, M Robin ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METAZOA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0030727399     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.4.0730     Document Type: Article

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