New paradigms in tropical limnology: The importance of the microbial food web

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 686, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Sarmento, Hugo ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterial production; Food chain length; Grazing; Heterotrophic prokaryote; Latitudinal gradient; Metabolic theory of ecology; Nanoflagellates; Phototrophic picoplankton

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EPILIMNION; FOOD CHAIN; GRAZING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IRRADIATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LIMNOLOGY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROBIAL LOOP; PARADIGM SHIFT; PICOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84856578115     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1011-6     Document Type: Review

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