To What Extent Do Food Preferences Explain the Trophic Position of Heterotrophic and Mixotrophic Microbial Consumers in a Sphagnum Peatland?

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 571-580

  Jassey, Vincent E J ^a,b,c   Meyer, Caroline ^a   Dupuy, Christine ^d   Bernard, Nadine ^a   Mitchell, Edward A D ^e   Toussaint, Marie Laure ^a   Metian, Marc ^d   Chatelain, Auriel P ^e   Gilbert, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYALOSPHENIA PAPILIO; SPHAGNUM;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENETICS; HETEROTROPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPHAGNOPSIDA;

AMOEBA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCES; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPHAGNOPSIDA;

EID: 84884416924     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-013-0262-8     Document Type: Article

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