The microbial loop – 25 years later
Abstract
The background for and the subsequent impact on biological oceanography of the article Azam et al. [Azam, F., Fenchel, T., Field, J.G., Gray, J.S., Meyer-Reil, L.A., Thingstad, F. 1983. The ecological role of water-column microbes in the sea. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 10, 257-263.] is discussed. It is concluded that its influence in terms of stimulating further research and in changing the earlier paradigm of marine plankton food chains was to a large extent due to the fact that the term "microbial loop"
- Publication:
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Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
- Pub Date:
- January 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.07.013
- Bibcode:
- 2008JEMBE.366...99F
- Keywords:
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- Functional types of microbes;
- Importance of names;
- Microbial loop;
- Recent discoveries