Allochthonous dissolved organic matter as an energy source for pelagic bacteria and the concept of the microbial loop

The Ecological Role of Water-Column Microbes in the Sea

1983 • 5,255 citations

The Paradox of the Plankton

1961 • 2,964 citations

Genetic diversity in Sargasso Sea bacterioplankton

1990 • 1,666 citations

High abundance of viruses found in aquatic environments

1989 • 1,611 citations

Thymidine incorporation as a measure of heterotrophic bacterioplankton production in marine surface waters: Evaluation and field results

1982 • 1,458 citations

The Ocean's Food Web, A Changing Paradigm

1974 • 1,334 citations

Current Perspectives in Microbial Ecology.

1985 • 1,115 citations

Viral mortality of marine bacteria and cyanobacteria

1990 • 990 citations

Bacterioplankton Secondary Production Estimates for Coastal Waters of British Columbia, Antarctica, and California

1980 • 882 citations

Photochemical degradation of dissolved organic carbon and its impact on the oceanic carbon cycle

1991 • 660 citations

Use of Monodispersed, Fluorescently Labeled Bacteria to Estimate In Situ Protozoan Bacterivory

1987 • 558 citations

Ecology of Heterotrophic Microflagellates. IV Quantitative Occurrence and Importance as Bacterial Consumers

1982 • 552 citations

Size-selective grazing on bacteria by natural assemblages of estuarine flagellates and ciliates

1990 • 485 citations

Frequency of Dividing Cells, a New Approach to the Determination of Bacterial Growth Rates in Aquatic Environments

1979 • 438 citations

MARINE PLANKTON FOOD CHAINS

1988 • 405 citations

Ecology of Microbial Communities

1988 • 400 citations

Microbial co-metabolism and the degradation of organic compounds in nature

1972 • 388 citations

Availability of dissolved organic carbon for planktonic bacteria in oligotrophic lakes of differing humic content

1988 • 380 citations

Protozoa in Planktonic Food Webs^1,2

1985 • 338 citations

A case for bacterial dormancy in aquatic systems

1977 • 297 citations

Phytoplankton exudate release as an energy source for the growth of pelagic bacteria

1979 • 270 citations

Heterotrophic Bacteria and Bacterivorous Protozoa in Oceanic Macroaggregates

1982 • 246 citations

Bacterioplankton in Lake Michigan: Dynamics, controls, and significance to carbon flux1

1987 • 204 citations

Direct use of high molecular weight polysaccharide by heterotrophic flagellates

1988 • 198 citations

Size-selective grazing by a microflagellate on pelagic bacteria

1986 • 193 citations

Carbon metabolism in a humic lake: Pool sires and cycling through zooplankton

1990 • 188 citations

Simultaneous measurement of bacterio-plankton production and protozoan bacterivory in estuarine water

1989 • 182 citations

Bacterial mortality and the fate of bacterial production

1988 • 150 citations

Microzones surrounding phytoplankton form the basis for a stratified marine microbial ecosystem

1985 • 150 citations

Bacterial Growth in Mixed Cultures on Dissolved Organic Carbon from Humic and Clear Waters

1987 • 147 citations

On the importance of dissolved organic matter in the nutrition of zooplankton in some lake waters

1986 • 145 citations

Bacterioplankton growth, grazing mortality and quantitative relationship to primary production in a humic and a clearwater lake

1989 • 130 citations

An examination of photosynthetic production, excretion of photosynthetic products, and heterotrophic utilization of dissolved organic compounds with reference to results from a coastal subtropical sea

1976 • 124 citations

Bacterivory in seawater studied with the use of inert fluorescent particles1

1986 • 119 citations

Evaluation of a fluorescent microsphere technique for measuring grazing rates of phagotrophic microorganisms

1987 • 117 citations

Protozoan Grazing and Bacterial Production in Stratified Lake Vechten Estimated with Fluorescently Labeled Bacteria and by Thymidine Incorporation

1989 • 109 citations

The relation between bacterial carbon and dissolved humic compounds in oligotrophic lakes

1985 • 108 citations

Trophic interactions within pelagic microbial communities: Indications of feedback regulation of carbon flow

1988 • 107 citations

Clearance rates of bacteria-sized particles by freshwater ciliates, measured with monodisperse fluorescent latex beads

1984 • 97 citations

Effect of benzoate on microbial decomposition of fulvic acids in Tjeukemeer (the Netherlands)

1977 • 97 citations

Protozoan Grazing, Bacterial Activity, and Mineralization in Two-Stage Continuous Cultures

1988 • 93 citations

Loss processes influencing growth of planktonic bacterial populations in Lake Constance

1986 • 88 citations

Respiration of plankton in two small, polyhumic lakes

1983 • 81 citations

Bacteria as a food source for microzooplankton in the Schlei Fjord and Baltic Sea with special references to ciliates

1985 • 75 citations

Use of Genetically Marked Minicells as a Probe in Measurement of Predation on Bacteria in Aquatic Environments

1986 • 69 citations

Coagulation on bubbles allows microbial respiration of oceanic dissolved organic carbon

1989 • 64 citations

A comparison of the ecology of planktonic bacteria in fresh and salt water

1988 • 63 citations

Effects of flocculated humic matter on free and attached pelagic microorganisms

1989 • 60 citations

Feeding of a Freshwater Flagellate, Bodo saltans, on Diverse Bacteria¹

1988 • 56 citations

Grazing rates on bacteria by marine heterotrophic microflagellates compared to uptake rates of bacterial-sized monodisperse fluorescent latex beads

1988 • 56 citations

Chemosensory responses of a heterotrophic microflagellate to bacteria and several nitrogen compounds

1987 • 41 citations

RNA Chemotaxonomy of Bacterial Isolates and Natural Microbial Communities

1990 • 24 citations