Orthophosphate uptake by heterotrophic bacteria, cyanobacteria, and autotrophic nanoflagellates in Villefranche Bay, northwestern Mediterranean: Vertical, seasonal, and short-term variations of the competitive relationship for phosphorus

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 1063-1072

  Tanaka, Tsuneo ^a,b   Rassoulzadegan, Fereidoun ^a   Frede Thingstad, T ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLAGELLATE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ALPES-MARITIMES; BAY OF VILLEFRANCHE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

EID: 3843125127     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.4.1063     Document Type: Article

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