Kill-the-winner (Thingstad)

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Microbial Ecology subtree

Thingstad-Lignell 1997 / Thingstad 2000: viral lysis preferentially kills most abundant prokaryotes; maintains diversity in marine microbial communities; explains plankton paradox + viral shunt of carbon.

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