Nutrient gradients in the western North Atlantic Ocean: Relationship to microbial community structure and comparison to patterns in the Pacific Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2373-2395

  Cavender Bares, Kent K ^a   Karl, David M ^b   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological stoichiometry; Microbial community structure; Nutrients; Redfield ratio; Sargasso Sea

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CHEMILUMINESCENCE; ECOSYSTEMS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

MOLAR RATIOS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOSPHORUS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034877669     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(01)00027-9     Document Type: Article

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