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Biomass and Metabolic Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Bacteria

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Advances in Microbial Ecology

Part of the book series: Advances in Microbial Ecology ((AMIE,volume 6))

Abstract

In the years since 1946, when ZoBell published his seminal book on marine microbiology, it has become evident that heterotrophic bacteria play an important role in nutrient cycling in the sea and that they are also basic members of the food web (Petipa et al., 1970; Sorokin, 1971, 1978; Pomeroy, 1970, 1974; Sieburth, 1976; Williams, 1981). Much evidence for this was obtained in the late 1960s and early 1970s, using the 14C-tracer technique introduced by Parsons and Strickland (1962). This technique enables the uptake of selected organic substrates by natural communities to be studied under in situ conditions. It could be shown that organisms smaller than 1–3 µ,m did indeed assimilate the largest fraction of these dissolved organic substrates when added to seawater samples in concentrations of a few micrograms per liter. As the information provided by the Parsons and Strickland technique is restricted to the fate of the selected substrates, several other methods for the determination of bacterial activity have been developed, giving more direct information on the dynamics of bacterial communities.

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van Es, F.B., Meyer-Reil, LA. (1982). Biomass and Metabolic Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Bacteria. In: Marshall, K.C. (eds) Advances in Microbial Ecology. Advances in Microbial Ecology, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8318-9_4

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