Bacteria are relevant members of planktonic food webs, both in terms of biomass and
production share. The assessment and comprehension of the factors that control bacterial …

It would not have been possible for me to write the three editions of this book without a
double dose of extraordinary fortune: to have been part of the Woods Hole scientific …

Flow cytometry is rapidly becoming a routine methodology in aquatic microbial ecology. The
combination of simple to use bench-top flow cytometers and highly fluorescent nucleic acid …

Although prokaryotes are small in size, they are a significant biomass component in aquatic
planktonic ecosystems and play a major role in biogeochemical processes. A review of the …

In order to better estimate bacterial biomass in marine environments, we developed a novel
technique for direct measurement of carbon and nitrogen contents of natural bacterial …

The paper catalogues the development of knowledge that has increasingly challenged the
conventional understanding (the paradigm) that the predominant pathway of energy flow in …

Phytoplankton and heterotrophic prokaryotes are major components of the microbial food
web and interact continuously: heterotrophic prokaryotes utilize the dissolved organic …

The paradigm of the'microbial loop'has became increasingly important for understanding the
structure and function of aquatic ecosystems. Most of the microbial loop studies have …

Seawater samples were collected from the euphotic zone of the Sargasso Sea near
Bermuda in August of 1989 and March–April of 1990. Microbial population abundances …

In all ecosystems, bacteria are the most numerous organisms and through them flows a
large fraction of annual primary production. In the past decade we have learned a great deal …