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microbial loop: a standalone construct

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Biological oceanography

the pathway by which dissolved organic matter released by plankton is taken up by bacteria and passed back into the food web through grazers.

In biological oceanography, microbial loop refers to the pathway by which dissolved organic matter released by plankton is taken up by bacteria and passed back into the food web through grazers. This meaning comes from Azam (1983) in Marine Ecology Progress Series.[1]

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References

Azam, F., Fenchel, T., Field, J., Gray, J., Meyer-Reil, L., & Thingstad, F. (1983). The Ecological Role of Water-Column Microbes in the Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 10, 257-263. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps010257

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