Nutrient Limitation in Surface Waters of the Oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean Sea: an Enrichment Microcosm Experiment

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 575-588

  Tsiola, A ^a,b   Pitta, P ^a   Fodelianakis, S ^b,f   Pete, R ^c   Magiopoulos, I ^a,b   Mara, P ^b   Psarra, S ^a   Tanaka, T ^d,e   Mostajir, B ^c,g  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^g UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Eukaryotic phytoplankton; Heterotrophic prokaryotes; Prochlorococcus; Synechococcus; Viruses

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; HETEROTROPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; VIRUS;

AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SEAWATER; VIRUSES;

EID: 84961154360     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-015-0713-5     Document Type: Article

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