Effect of viruses and protists on bacteria in eddies of the Canary Current region (subtropical northeast Atlantic)

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 885-898

  Boras, Julia A ^a   Montserrat Sala, M ^a   Baltar, Federico ^b   Arístegui, Javier ^b   Duarte, Carlos M ^c   Vaqué, Dolors ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CYCLONE; EDDY; EUPHOTIC ZONE; LYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PROTIST; SAMPLING; UPWELLING; VIRUS; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY CURRENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTISTA;

EID: 78650473759     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.55.2.0885     Document Type: Article

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