Accumulation of degradable DOC in surface waters: Is it caused by a malfunctioning microbial loop?

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 398-404

  Thingstad, T Frede ^a   Hagström, Åke ^b   Rassoulzadegan, Fereidoun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Department of Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology   (Denmark)

^c LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTOZOA;

EID: 0030845704     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.2.0398     Document Type: Article

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