Bacterial colonization and microbial decomposition of limnetic organic aggregates (lake snow)

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-140

  Grossart, Hans Peter ^a,b   Simon, Meinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Ectoenzyme activities; In situ hybridization; Lake constance; Lake snow bacteria; Pom

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000260188     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame015127     Document Type: Article

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