tic and biochemi-cal diversity. Their struggle for survival is manifest in a web of microbial life, the microbial loop, which is function-ally intertwined with the more familiar food web of plan.

ncept became known as the microbial loop. More recent discoveries have identified additional contributors to the loop, such as novel phototrophic bacteria, archaea and viruses, yet the role …

My principal objectives are to compare and contrast the concept of the microbial loop in aquatic ecosystems (e.g., Sherr and Sherr [20] and Bratbak et al. [2]) with the microbial loop as it has …

The microbial loop describes a trophic pathway in the marine microbial food web where dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is returned to higher trophic levels via its incorporation into bacterial …

Abstract. This paper synthesizes current ideas on the role of the microbial loop in carbon fluxes in the ocean and proposes some directions for future research. Organic matter flux into bacteria …

The dynamic behaviour of the 'microbial loop' is a result of several interacting ecological relationships: commensalism, competition and predation. Commen- salism occurs in the …

Here we develop an eco-evolutionary model to predict the physiological response and adaptation through selection of bacterial populations in the microbial loop and how this will impact...