Photochemically produced bioavailable nitrogen from biologically recalcitrant dissolved organic matter stimulates production of a nitrogen-limited microbial food web in the Baltic Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 132-143

  Vähätalo, Anssi V ^a,b   Järvinen, Marko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOTROPHY; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FOOD WEB; NANOPLANKTON; NITROGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROTOZOAN; SOLAR RADIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 34250904101     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.1.0132     Document Type: Article

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