Nutritional importance of benthic bacteria for deep-sea nematodes from the Arctic ice margin: Results of an isotope tracer experiment

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1977-1989

  Guilini, Katja ^a   Van Oevelen, Dick ^b   Soetaert, Karline ^b   Middelburg, Jack J ^b,c   Vanreusel, Ann ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; BACTERIVORY; BENTHOS; BICARBONATE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEEP SEA; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FATTY ACID; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GLUCOSE; ICE MARGIN; MARINE SEDIMENT; NEMATODE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOSPHOLIPID; TRACER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEMATODA;

EID: 77958067507     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.5.1977     Document Type: Article

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