Growth and specific P-uptake rates of bacterial and phytoplanktonic communities in the Southeast Pacific (BIOSOPE cruise)

Biogeosciences

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 941-956

  Duhamel, S ^a   Moutin, T ^a   Van Wambeke, F ^a   Van Mooy, B ^b   Rimmelin, P ^a   Raimbault, P ^a   Claustre, H ^c,d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH RATE; GYRE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; TROPHIC STATUS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 36048986726     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-4-941-2007     Document Type: Article

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