Significance of limnetic organic aggregates (lake snow) for the sinking flux of particulate organic matter in a large lake

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-125

  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; Aminopeptidase; Lake constance; Lake snow; POM; POM decomposition; Sediment trap; Sinking flux

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000416749     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame015115     Document Type: Article

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