Dynamics of microbial communities on marine snow aggregates: Colonization, growth, detachment, and grazing mortality of attached bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3036-3047

  Kiørboe, Thomas ^a,d   Tang, Kam ^a,e   Grossart, Hans Peter ^b,f   Ploug, Helle ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Danish Inst for Fisheries Research   (Germany)

^e VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; MICROORGANISMS; SEAWATER; SNOW;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

BACTERIA;

AGGREGATE; BACTERIVORY; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; GROWTH; MARINE SNOW; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORTALITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; CELL DENSITY; FLAGELLATE; GRAZING; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

EID: 0038581916     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.6.3036-3047.2003     Document Type: Article

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