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viral shunt: a standalone construct

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Plankton ecology

the diversion of carbon and nutrients from higher food-web levels back into dissolved pools when viruses burst marine microbes.

In plankton ecology, viral shunt refers to the diversion of carbon and nutrients from higher food-web levels back into dissolved pools when viruses burst marine microbes. This meaning comes from Wilhelm (1999) in BioScience.[1]

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diversion2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs shunt3 fields · 3 citationsinvariant · one construct, three systems

References

Wilhelm, S. W., & Suttle, C. A. (1999). Viruses and Nutrient Cycles in the Sea. BioScience, 49(10), 781-788. https://doi.org/10.2307/1313569

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