Elemental composition of natural populations of key microbial groups in Atlantic waters

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3054-3064

  Grob, Carolina ^a   Ostrowski, Martin ^b   Holland, Ross J ^c   Heldal, Mikal ^d   Norland, Svein ^d   Erichsen, Egil S ^d   Blindauer, Claudia ^a   Martin, Adrian P ^c   Zubkov, Mikhail V ^c   Scanlan, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTISTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SEA WATER; WATER;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUKARYOTE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARBON; EUKARYOTA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEAWATER; SYNECHOCOCCUS; WATER;

EID: 84886414748     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12145     Document Type: Article

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