Partitioning of microbial biomass in pelagic aquatic communities: Maximum resiliency as a food web organizing construct

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-10

  Laws, Edward A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Food web; Model; Phytoplankton; Stability

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0038580909     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame032001     Document Type: Article

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