Reality checks on microbial food web interactions in dilution experiments: Responses to the comments of Dolan and McKeon

Ocean Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-44

  Landry, M R ^a   Calbet, A ^b  

^a INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^b Centro Mediterráneo de Investigaciones Marinas y Ambientales   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 34249010409     PISSN: 18120784     EISSN: 18120792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/os-1-39-2005     Document Type: Article

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