Growth efficiency, growth rate and the remineralization of organic substrate by bacterioplankton - Revisiting the Pirt model

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-128

  Cajal Medrano, Ramón ^a,b   Maske, Helmut ^a  

^a Ecologia Ctro Invest Cie y E   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton; Growth efficiency; Growth rate; Respiration rate

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033213604     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame019119     Document Type: Article

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