Bacterioplankton distribution and production in deep Pacific waters: Large-scale geographic variations and possible coupling with sinking particle fluxes

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 426-435

  Nagata, Toshi ^a   Fukuda, Hideki ^a   Fukuda, Rumi ^a   Koike, Isao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON; DECOMPOSITION; DEPTH; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TRIXIS;

EID: 0034012986     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0426     Document Type: Article

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