Uptake of dissolved organic nitrogen by size-fractionated plankton along a salinity gradient from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 111, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 347-360

  Korth, Frederike ^a   Deutsch, Barbara ^b   Liskow, Iris ^a   Voss, Maren ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Dissolved organic nitrogen; Heterotrophic bacteria; Nitrogen uptake; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PLANKTON; SALINITY; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRASSICA NAPUS; PHRAGMITES; SKELETONEMA COSTATUM;

EID: 84873203806     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-011-9656-1     Document Type: Article

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