Enhanced viral production and virus-mediated mortality of bacterioplankton in a natural iron-fertilized bloom event above the Kerguelen Plateau
Above the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean natural iron fertilization sustains a large phytoplankton bloom over 3 months during austral summer. During the KEOPS1 project (KErguelen Ocean and Plateau compared Study1) we sampled this phytoplankton bloom during its declining phase along with the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-12-01
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Series: | Biogeosciences |
Online Access: | http://www.biogeosciences.net/11/6841/2014/bg-11-6841-2014.pdf |