Tropical freshwater ecosystems have lower bacterial growth efficiency than temperate ones

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Amado, André M ^a   Meirelles Pereira, Frederico ^b   Vidal, Luciana O ^c   Sarmento, Hugo ^a   Suhett, Albert L ^d   Farjalla, Vinicius F ^b   Cotner, James B ^e   Roland, Fabio ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^d Centro Universitario Estadual da Zona Oeste   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

BGE; Carbon cycle; Microbial metabolism; Temperate; Tropical

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; RADIOISOTOPE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CARBON DEMAND; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBON CYCLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DATA BASE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84884275938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00167     Document Type: Article

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