Bacterivory and herbivory: Key roles of phagotrophic protists in pelagic food webs
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Research on "microbial loop" organisms, heterotrophic bacteria and phagotrophic protists, has been stimulated in large measure by Pomeroy's seminal paper published in BioScience in 1974. We now know that a significant fate of bacterioplankton production is gra... ...
