Distribution of bacterial biomass and activity in the marginal ice zone of the central Barents Sea during summer

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 77-91

  Howard Jones, M H ^a,b,e   Ballard, V D ^c   Allen, A E ^a,d   Frischer, M E ^a   Verity, P G ^a  

^a SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Arctic; Bacteria; Barents Sea; Leucine; Probes; Viruses

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CELLS; ECOSYSTEMS; GROWTH KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA; SEAWATER; VIRUSES;

VIRAL ABUNDANCE;

MARINE ENGINEERING;

LEUCINE; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; SURFACE WATER;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; METABOLISM;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CELL DENSITY; EUBACTERIUM; HYPOTHESIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; STAIN AND PROBE METHOD; WATER DEPTH; WATER SAMPLING;

BARENTS SEA;

EID: 2242460418     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-7963(02)00170-7     Document Type: Article

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