Therefore, the microbial loop, together with primary production, controls the productivity of marine systems in the ocean.

Azam was the lead author on the paper which coined the term microbial loop.

His work has facilitated understanding the role of microbes in marine ecosystems, including the microbial loop.

This patch formation affects the biologically-mediated transfer of matter and energy in the microbial loop.

The microbial loop is a trophic pathway in the marine microbial food web.

The bulk of carbon is assimilated into the benthic and microbial loops, which represent energetic dead ends.

Recently the term "microbial food web" has been substituted for the term "microbial loop".

This regeneration cycle is known as the microbial loop and is a key component of lentic food webs.

DOC is a food supplement, supporting growth of microorganisms and plays an important role in the global carbon cycle through the microbial loop.

The efficiency of the microbial loop is determined by the density of marine bacteria within it (Taylor and Joint 1990).

Bacteria in the microbial loop decompose this particulate detritus to utilize this energy-rich matter for growth.

For example, the microbial loop within the marine context is responsible for the decomposition of organics and recycling of nutrients back into the ecosystem.

These microorganisms including bacteria and the broad range of organisms that form the marine microbial loop, responsible for regulating much of the oceans' biogeochemistry.

Special attention is paid to biotic interactions in plankton assemblage including the microbial loop, the mechanism of influencing water blooms, phosphorus load and lake turnover.

Prior to the discovery of the microbial loop, the classic view of marine food webs was one of a linear chain from phytoplankton to nekton.

In general, the entire microbial loop is to some extent typically five to ten times the mass of all multicellular marine organisms in the marine ecosystem.

This waste is hypothesized to fuel the microbial loop, resulting in an increase in microzooplankton such as L. tetraspina, which utilize rotifers and ciliates.

As the aggregates slowly sink to the bottom of the ocean, the many microorganisms residing on them are constantly respiring and contribute greatly to the microbial loop.

Detrital production from clam excretion and death may fuel bacterial production, which may be circulated into the detrital food web, or microbial loop.

The microbial loop describes a pathway in the microbial food web where DOC is returned to higher trophic levels via the incorporation into bacterial biomass.

Phage ecosystem ecologists are primarily concerned with the phage impact on the global carbon cycle, especially within the context of a phenomenon known as the microbial loop.

Bacteria are the chief agents of transformation of DOM and POM into bioavailable carbon through the microbial loop.

The magnitude of the efficiency of the microbial loop can be determined by measuring bacterial incorporation of radiolabeled substrates (such as tritiated thymidine or leucine).

The other main effect of the microbial loop in the water column is that it accelerates mineralization through regenerating production in nutrient-limited environments (e.g. oligotrophic waters).

More currently, the microbial loop is considered to be more extended (Kerner, Hohenberg, Ertl, Reckermannk, Spitzy 2003).