The temporal dynamics of coastal phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in the eastern mediterranean sea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Raveh, Ofrat ^a   David, Niv ^a   Rilov, Gil ^a   Rahav, Eyal ^a  

^a ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COASTAL WATERS; FOOD WEB; HABITAT; INORGANIC NUTRIENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPRING; SUMMER; WINTER; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROTROPHY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

SEA WATER;

AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84949489685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140690     Document Type: Article

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