Phytoplankton lysis predicts dissolved organic carbon release in marine plankton communities

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1259-1264

  Agusti S ^a,b   Duarte, C M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; LYSIS; MORTALITY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84874619097     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-1259-2013     Document Type: Article

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