The trophic dynamics of riverine bacterioplankton: Relationships among substrate availability, ectoenzyme kinetics, and growth

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1344-1352

  Foreman, C M ^a   Franchini, P ^a   Sinsabaugh, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031735417     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.6.1344     Document Type: Article

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