Microbial food webs in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

Environmental Microbiology: Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 485-509

  Mostajir, Behzad ^a   Amblard, Christian ^b   Buffan Dubau, Evelyne ^c   De Wit, Rutger ^a   Lensi, Robert ^d   Sime Ngando, Télesphore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c Institut National Polytechnique   (France)

^d CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeochemical cycles; Ecological interactions; Microbial food webs; Microbial loop

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943279711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9118-2_13     Document Type: Chapter

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