Microbial plankton abundance and heterotrophic activity across the Central Atlantic Ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-94

  Vázquez Domínguez, Evaristo ^a   Duarte, Carlos M ^c   Agustí, Susana ^c   Jürgens, Klaus ^b   Vaqué, Dolors ^a   Gasol, Josep M ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Auto and heterotrophic picoplankton; Bacterial production; Central Atlantic Ocean; Grazing; Heterotrophic nanoflagellates

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PORPHYRINS;

AUTO- AND HETEROTROPHIC PICOPLANKTON; BACTERIAL PRODUCTION; CENTRAL ATLANTIC OCEAN; GRAZING; HETEROTROPHIC NANOFLAGELLATES;

OCEAN HABITATS;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOACTIVITY; CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; FLAGELLATE; GRAZING; HETEROTROPHY; PICOPLANKTON; TROPHIC STATUS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 53149095370     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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