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Bloom of filamentous bacteria in a mesotrophic lake: identity and potential controlling mechanism.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2004
Pernthaler Jakob, Zöllner Eckart, Warnecke Falk, Jürgens Klaus
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Ephemeral blooms of filamentous bacteria are a common phenomenon in the water column of oligo- to mesotrophic lakes. It is assumed that the appearance of such morphotypes is favored by selective predation of bacterivorous protists and that filter-feeding zooplankton plays a major role in suppress...
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