Aquatic Ecosystems
Subtitle: Interactivity of Dissolved Organic Matter (Aquatic Ecology)
Contributors: Stuart Findlay (Editor); Robert L. Sinsabaugh (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: October 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780122563713
Subjects: Animal ecology; Freshwater biology, limnology; Life Sciences - Ecology; Freshwater Biology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Life Sciences - Biology - Marine Biology; Limnology; Science / Ecology; Environmental Science; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Aquatic ecology
First sentence: The photosynthetic production of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in marine and freshwater ecosystems is a major source of metabolic substrates for heterotrophic microorganisms and influences both the activity and the composition of aquatic microbial communities (Pomeroy, 1974; Azam and Cho, 1987).