Coupling between rates of bacterial production and the abundance of metabolically active bacteria in lakes, enumerated using CTC reduction and flow cytometry

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 144-154

  Del Giorgio, P A ^a   Prairie, Y T ^a   Bird, D F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PRODUCTION; BACTERIOPLANKTON; GROWTH RATE;

CANADA, QUEBEC;

EID: 0030741456     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002489900044     Document Type: Article

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