Integrating classical and microbial food web concepts: Evolving views from the open-ocean tropical Pacific

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 480, Issue , 2002, Pages 29-39

  Landry, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Climate; Food web; Grazing balance; Nitrogen fixation; Phytoplankton; Prochlorococcus; Protists; Seasonal blooms; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS;

FOOD WEB;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

FOOD WEB; GRAZING; IRON; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYTOPLANKTON;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTISTA;

EID: 0037101710     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021272731737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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