Estuarine Microbial Food Webs

Estuarine Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 263-284

  Crump, Byron C ^a   Ducklow, Hugh W ^b   Hobbie, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Enrichment, elevating phytoplankton productivity; Estuarine microbial food webs; Eutrophication, or anthropogenic elevation of nutrient inputs; Metazoan grazers, thriving on microbial food web; Microbial food webs, pelagic, stable, self contained ecosystems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887232693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118412787.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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