Proportion of bacteria in total plankton of the Central Adriatic

Abstract

       Quantitative presence of bacteria in total plankton was studied in the coastal area and on the high sea of the centrale Adriatic in 1980. The results indicate that the pro­portion of bacteria in total plankton biomass is considerable. In the coastal sea bacterial carbon was, on an average, 11.49% and in the high sea 12.04% of total planktonic car­bon assessed from the ATP quantity.