title: Use of radiolabeled tracers in dilution grazing experiments to estimate bacterial growth and loss rates.
abstract: Dilution grazing experiments were conducted to determine growth and loss rates of glucose-metabolizing and total bacteria. Bacterial growth rates were low and losses to grazers negligible in samples collected from the Celtic Sea in June 1986. Growth and loss rates of glucose-metabolizing bacteria were higher than growth and loss rates of total bacteria in a sample collected from the North Sea in October 1986.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, B15 2TT, Birmingham, England.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Geider