Silicate and labile DOC interfere in structuring the microbial food web via algal-bacterial competition for mineral nutrients: Results of a mesocosm experiment

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 129-140

  Havskum, Harry ^a   Thingstad, T Frede ^b   Scharek, Renate ^c   Peters, Francesc ^c   Berdalet, Elisa ^c   Sala, M Montserrat ^c   Alcaraz, Miquel ^c   Bangsholt, Jan C ^d   Zweifel, Ulla Li ^e   Hagström, Åke ^e   Perez, Maite ^f   Dolan, John R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d DHI   (Denmark)

^e LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FOOD WEB; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MESOCOSM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT; SILICATE;

DENMARK; ISEFJORD;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037246958     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.1.0129     Document Type: Article

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