Protistan Grazing on Marine Bacterioplankton

Microbial Ecology of the Oceans: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 383-441

  Jürgens, Klaus ^a   Massana, Ramon ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterial assemblages and grazing shaping force; Marine bacterioplankton protistan grazing; Marine heterotrophic nanoflagellate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891336156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470281840.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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