Organic carbon oxidation and suppression of methane production by microbial Fe(III) oxide reduction in vegetated and unvegetated freshwater wetland sediments

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1733-1748

  Roden, Eric E ^a   Wetzel, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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EID: 0001279280     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1996.41.8.1733     Document Type: Article

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