Environmental ScienceBiology
F. Azam, T. Fenchel, J. G. Field, J. Gray, L. Meyer-Reil, F. Thingstad
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Evidence is presented to suggest that numbers of free bacteria are controlled by nanoplankton~c heterotrophic flagellates which are ubiquitous in the marine water column, thus providing the means for returning some energy from the 'microbial loop' to the conventional planktonic food chain.
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AZAM, F., et al. The ecological role of water-column microbes in the sea*. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES, 1983, 10: 257–263.