Tracing carbon flow from microphytobenthos to major bacterial groups in an intertidal marine sediment by using an in situ 13C pulse-chase method

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1275-1287

  Miyatake, Tetsuro ^a,c   Moerdijk Poortvliet, Tanja C W ^a   Stal, Lucas J ^a,b   Boschker, Henricus T S ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; FOOD WEB; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROPLANKTON; PHYTOBENTHOS;

EID: 84902687752     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.4.1275     Document Type: Article

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