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Patterns of marine bacterioplankton biodiversity in the surface waters of the Scotia Arc, Southern Ocean.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 May 2012
Jamieson Rachel E, Rogers Alex D, Billett David S M, Smale Dan A, Pearce David A
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Spatial patchiness in marine surface bacterioplankton populations was investigated in the Southern Ocean, where the Antarctic Circumpolar Current meets the islands of the Scotia Arc and is subjected to terrestrial input, upwelling of nutrients and seasonal phytoplankton blooms. Total bacterioplankton population density, group-specific taxonomic distribution and six of eight dominant members of the...
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