Distribution of the prokaryotic biomass and community respiration in the main water masses of the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea (June and December 2005)

Advances in Oceanography and Limnology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-257

  la Ferla, Rosabruna ^a   Azzaro, Maurizio ^a   Budillon, Giorgio ^b   Caroppo, Carmela ^a   Decembrini, Franco ^a   Maimone, Giovanna ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell carbon content; Cell volume; Community respiration; Mediterranean Sea; Prokaryotic abundance; Prokaryotic biomass; Tyrrhenian water masses

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CARBON FLUX; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHOTIC ZONE; PROKARYOTE; WATER MASS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84985940202     PISSN: 19475721     EISSN: 1947573X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475721.2010.541500     Document Type: Article

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