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Nitrogen turnover in marine and brackish habitats IV. Uptake of the extracellular products of the nitrogen-fixing alga Calothrix scopulorum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

K. Jones  and
W. D. P. Stewart
K. Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, Westfield College, University of London
W. D. P. Stewart
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, Westfield College, University of London
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Long-term growth experiments and experiments using 15 as tracer show that extracellular nitrogen liberated by the blue-green alga Calothrix scopulorum is removed from solution by a variety of algae, fungi and bacteria. Active and passive processes are involved in the uptake, the relative importance of each process varying with the test organism and the extracellular products.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , August 1969 , pp. 701 - 716
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1969

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