Theoretical and empirical conversion factors for determining bacterial production in freshwater sediments via leucine incorporation

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 101-107

  Buesing, Nanna ^a,b   Marxsen, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

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EID: 33645812121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2005.3.101     Document Type: Article

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