The dynamics of attached and free-living bacterial population in tropical coastal waters

• Main Authors: Lee, S.W., Lee, C.W., Bong, C.W., Narayanan, Kulathuramaiyer, Sim, E.U.-H.
• Format: E-Article
• Published: CSIRO 2015
• Subjects: GE Environmental Sciences; QR Microbiology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12737/; https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84938255837&origin=inward&txGid=0#

We investigated the dynamics of attached and free-living bacterial abundance over a period of 18 months in tropical coastal waters of Malaysia. We measured the abundance at both oligotrophic coastal water (Port Dickson) and eutrophic estuary (Klang), and hypothesised that attached bacteria are predo...