Roles of submicron particles and colloids in microbial food webs and biogeochemical cycles within marine environments

Advances in Microbial Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-103

  Nagata, Toshi ^a   Kirchman, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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