Balance between primary and bacterial production in North Patagonian shallow lakes

Aquatic Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 867-878

  Navarro, Marcela Bastidas ^a   Modenutti, Beatriz ^a   Callieri, Cristiana ^b   Bertoni, Roberto ^b   Balseiro, Esteban ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente Bariloche   (Argentina)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton; Dissolved organic matter; Phytoplankton >2 m; Picophytoplankton; Primary and bacterial production; Shallow Andean lakes

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOLAR RADIATION;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 72149110102     PISSN: 13862588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10452-008-9220-9     Document Type: Article

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