Resourceful heterotrophs make the most of light in the coastal ocean

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 792-800

  Moran, Mary Ann ^a   Miller, William L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC CARBON; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; ENERGY; FOOD WEB; GAS EXCHANGE; HETEROTROPH; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PELAGIC SPECIES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA; SEASHORE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUNLIGHT;

BACTERIA; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; LIGHT; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 34548725601     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1746     Document Type: Review

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