Heterotrophic microbial activity and organic matter degradation in coastal lagoons of Colombia

In this study we measured the community respiration and the bacterial respiration as part of the overall degradation process of organic material. Additionally, the turnover rates of the pools of dissolved free glucose and acetate as representatives of the fraction of easily degradable low molecular...

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Main Authors: Klaus Gocke, José Ernesto Mancera Pineda, Adriana Vallejo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vicerractoría Investigación 2003-03-01
Series:Revista de Biología Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442003000100007