The Ecological Role of Water-Column Microbes in the Sea*
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Summary
Evidence is presented to suggest that numbers of free bacteria are controlled by nanoplankton~c heterotrophic flagellates which are ubiquitous in the marine water column, thus providing the means for returning some energy from the 'microbial loop' to the conventional planktonic food chain.
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- article
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- 1983-01-01
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- 5,547
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Keywords
Water column, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Biomass (ecology), Microbial loop
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