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31 Aug 2012
Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates
Y.-W. Luo
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
S. C. Doney
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
L. A. Anderson
Department of Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
M. Benavides
Instituto de Oceanografía y Cambio Global, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
I. Berman-Frank
The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
A. Bode
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de A Coruña, 15080 A Coruña, Spain
S. Bonnet
IRD-INSU-CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Biogéochimique, UMR 6535, Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Aix Marseille Université, France
K. H. Boström
Department of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, 39182 Kalmar, Sweden
D. Böttjer
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
D. G. Capone
Department of Biological Sciences and Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
E. J. Carpenter
Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, California 94920, USA
Y. L. Chen
Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan
M. J. Church
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
J. E. Dore
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
L. I. Falcón
Laboratorio de Ecología Bacteriana, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
A. Fernández
Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Universidade de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
R. A. Foster
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
K. Furuya
Department of Aquatic Bioscience, University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
F. Gómez
Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Universidad de Valencia, P.O. Box 22085, 46071 Valencia, Spain
K. Gundersen
Department of Marine Science, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 39529, USA
A. M. Hynes
MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
currently at: Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
D. M. Karl
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
S. Kitajima
Department of Aquatic Bioscience, University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
R. J. Langlois
Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences, Duesternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
J. LaRoche
Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences, Duesternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
R. M. Letelier
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
E. Marañón
Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Universidade de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
D. J. McGillicuddy Jr.
Department of Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
P. H. Moisander
Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
currently at: Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747, USA
C. M. Moore
University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK
B. Mouriño-Carballido
Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Universidade de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
M. R. Mulholland
Department of Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
J. A. Needoba
Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
K. M. Orcutt
Department of Marine Science, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 39529, USA
A. J. Poulton
National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
E. Rahav
The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
P. Raimbault
IRD-INSU-CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Biogéochimique, UMR 6535, Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Aix Marseille Université, France
A. P. Rees
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK
L. Riemann
Marine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, 3000 Helsingør, Denmark
T. Shiozaki
Department of Aquatic Bioscience, University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
A. Subramaniam
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York 10964, USA
T. Tyrrell
University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK
K. A. Turk-Kubo
Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
M. Varela
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de A Coruña, 15080 A Coruña, Spain
T. A. Villareal
Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, Texas 78382, USA
E. A. Webb
Department of Biological Sciences and Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
A. E. White
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
J. Wu
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, USA
J. P. Zehr
Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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