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Toward an Autecology of Bacterioplankton

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The purpose of this chapter on bacterioplankton is to place these procaryotes within the frame of reference commonly used to study and understand the eucaryotic plankton. The study of bacterioplankton is very recent compared to that of phyto- and zooplankton. In the last few years quantitative evidence of the importance of bacterioplankton in carbon cycling in lakes is accumulating at a fast rate. It now appears that bacterioplankton production constitutes around 30 percent of the total production of phytoplankton (Cole et al., 1988). However, because bacteria are very small and morphologically not very diverse, very little is known about their species composition in situ (Staley, 1980; Atlas, 1983).

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Pedrós-Alió, C. (1989). Toward an Autecology of Bacterioplankton. In: Sommer, U. (eds) Plankton Ecology. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74890-5_8

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