Spatial and temporal prokaryotic variability in the northern Adriatic Sea

Marine Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 375-386

  Del Negro, Paola ^a   Celussi, Mauro ^a   Crevatin, Erica ^a   Paoli, Alessandro ^a   Aubry, Fabrizio Bernardi ^b   Pugnetti, Alessandra ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydrolytic exoenzymatic activity; Mediterranean; Northern Adriatic Sea; Nutrients; Planktonic prokaryotes; Seasonality; Secondary carbon production

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLOCHTHONY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PROKARYOTE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 51349160050     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2008.00249.x     Document Type: Article

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