Comparative analysis shows that bacterivory, not viral lysis, controls the abundance of heterotrophic prokaryotic plankton

• Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
• Main Authors: Pedrós-Alió, Carlos, Calderón-Paz, Juan I., Gasol, Josep M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2000
• Subjects: Articles; Saltern; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://femsec.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/32/2/157; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2000.tb00709.x

Empirical models derived from literature data were used to compare the factors controlling prokaryotic abundance (PN) and prokaryotic heterotrophic production (PHP) in solar salterns. These empirical relationships were generated as multiple linear regressions with PN or PHP as dependent variables, w...