Dominance of particle-attached bacteria in the Columbia River estuary, USA

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-18

  Crump, Byron C ^a   Baross, John A ^a   Simenstad, Charles A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial carbon production; Columbia River; Detrital food web; Estuarine turbidity maxima; Free living bacteria; Particle attached bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 0542396668     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame014007     Document Type: Article

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