Diversity of pico- to mesoplankton along the 2000 km salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea

Microbial plankton form the productive base of both marine and freshwater ecosystems and are key drivers of global biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nutrients. Plankton diversity is immense with representations from all major phyla within the three domains of life. So far, plankton monitoring has...

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Main Authors: Yue O.O. Hu, Bengt eKarlson, Sophie eCharvet, Anders F Andersson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00679/full