Coherent patterns in bacterial growth, growth efficiency, and leucine metabolism along a northeastern Pacific inshore-offshore transect

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Del Giorgio, Paul A ^a   Condon, Robert ^b   Bouvier, Thierry ^c   Longnecker, Krista ^d   Bouvier, Corinne ^c   Sherr, Evelyn ^e   Gasol, Josep M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; COASTAL ZONE; GROWTH RATE; GYRE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANKTON; RESPIRATION; UPWELLING;

OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78651380983     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.1.0001     Document Type: Article

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