Growth, grazing and carbon flux of high and low nucleic acid bacteria differ in surface and deep chlorophyll maximum layers in the NW Mediterranean Sea

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-161

  Scharek, Renate ^a,b   Latasa, Mikel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterial growth; Carbon flux; Deep chlorophyll maximum layer; Grazing mortality of bacteria; HNA bacteria; LNA bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33847709102     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame046153     Document Type: Article

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