Production of viruses during a spring phytoplankton bloom in the South Pacific Ocean near of New Zealand

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 709-719

  Matteson, Audrey R ^a   Loar, Star N ^a   Pickmere, Stuart ^b   Debruyn, Jennifer M ^a   Ellwood, Michael J ^c   Boyd, Philip W ^b,d   Hutchins, David A ^e   Wilhelm, Steven W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Marine bacteria; Marine microbial communities; Nutrient cycling; Phytoplankton bloom dynamics; Viral production

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; SEA WATER;

ABUNDANCE; ALGAL BLOOM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CHLOROPHYLL A; DIATOM; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MESOSCALE EDDY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORTALITY; NANOPLANKTON; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PARAMETERIZATION; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; SPRING (SEASON); TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DIATOM; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASON; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; CHLOROPHYLL; DIATOMS; EUTROPHICATION; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONS; SEAWATER; VIRUSES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84856032530     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01251.x     Document Type: Article

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