Diel variations in bacterial heterotrophic activity and growth in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 164, Issue , 1998, Pages 107-124

  Gasol, Josep M ^a   Doval, M D ^b   Pinhassi, Jarone ^c   Calderón Paz, Juan I ^a   Guixa Boixareu, Núria ^a   Vaqué, Dolors ^a   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacterial carbon conversion efficiencies; Bacterial production; Diel cycles; DOC diel changes; Mediterranean; Nucleoid containing bacteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032499098     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps164107     Document Type: Article

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