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Parameter: bacterial_growth_efficiency

Short Description: Bacterial Growth Efficiency

Short Name: bacterial_growth_efficiency

Official Name: bacterial_growth_efficiency

Units: uM C

No Data Value: nd

Description

Bacterial Growth Efficiency (BGE)

BGE is defined as the change in carbon associated with bacterial biomass (over exponential growth)/ the concurrent change in dissolved organic carbon.

The amount of consumed organic carbon that is used to build biomass as opposed to respired.

Parameter Occurences in Datasets (1)

Dataset	PI-Supplied Description	PI-Supplied Name
Phytoplankton growth, microzooplankton herbivory from R/V Roger Revelle KIWI6, KIWI7, KIWI8, KIWI9 cruises in the Southern Ocean, 1997-1998 (U.S. JGOFS AESOPS project)	phytoplankton specific growth rate	phyto_growth