Seasonal switching between relative importance of bottom-up and top-down control of bacterial and heterotrophic nanoflagellate abundance

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 755-766

  Solic M ^a   Krstulovic N ^a   Bojanic N ^a   Marasovic I ^a   Nincevic Z ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; NANNOPLANKTON; SEASONALITY; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ADRIATIC SEA; KASTELA BAY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0031662303     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0025315400044763     Document Type: Article

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