Remarkable heterogeneity in meso- and bathypelagic bacterioplankton assemblage composition

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1274-1283

  Hewson, Ian ^a,b   Steele, Joshua A ^a   Capone, Douglas G ^a   Fuhrman, Jed A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON; BENTHOS; MESOPELAGIC ZONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CORAL SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS;

EID: 33744923681     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.3.1274     Document Type: Article

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