Protist grazing and viral lysis as prokaryotic mortality factors at Baltic Sea oxica-noxic interfaces

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 467, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Anderson, Ruth ^a   Winter, Christian ^b   Jürgens, Klaus ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Baltic Sea; Grazing; Redoxcline; Suboxia; Viral lysis; WORDS: Protist

Indexed keywords

BACTERIVORY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DINOFLAGELLATE; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; LYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORTALITY; OXYGEN; PROKARYOTE; PROTIST; REDOX CONDITIONS; SUBOXIC CONDITIONS; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

CILIOPHORA; COLEPS; DINOPHYCEAE; MESODINIUM; METACYSTIS; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84868021462     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10001     Document Type: Article

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