Transparent exopolymer particle (TEP) dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 431, Issue , 2011, Pages 107-118

  Bar Zeev, E ^a   Berman, T ^b   Rahav, E ^a   Dishon, G ^a   Herut, B ^c   Kress, N ^c   Berman Fran, I ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial production; Carbon cycling; Levantine basin; Mediterranean Sea; TEP

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON CYCLE; CHLOROPHYLL A; DETRITUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HETEROTROPHY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE LAYER; TRANSPARENT EXOPOLYMER PARTICLE;

LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SESAMUM INDICUM;

EID: 79958253864     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09110     Document Type: Article

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