The microbial loop -25 years later

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Mixotrophic protists and a new paradigm for marine ecology: where does plankton research go now? (2019, background): “…had been known about for decades before the mid 1970s, the broad importance of the concept was only brought to wide attention with works such as those of Pomeroy (1974), Williams (1981) and Azam et al. (1983), with increasing acceptance following that (e.g. Pomeroy et al., 2007; Fenchel, 2008).”
Stimulation of Plant Growth through Interactions of Bacteria and Protozoa: Testing the Auxiliary Microbial Loop Hypothesis (2012, background): “This new concept radically modified the traditional views at that time regarding bacteria as (re) mobilizers of nutrients and primary producers only as nutrient sinks in aquatic systems (Caron 1994, Fenchel 2008).”
A test of the sponge-loop hypothesis for emergent Caribbean reef sponges (2018, background): “It is now understood that the structure of plankton communities is a web of trophic inter actions, rather than a simple linear chain, largely driven by the cycling of carbon and nutrients by microbes (Fenchel 2008).”