Urea decomposing activity of fractionated brackish phytoplankton in Lake Nakaumi

Limnology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 75-80

  Mitamura, Osamu ^a   Seike, Yasushi ^b   Kondo, Kunio ^c   Ishida, Noriko ^d   Okumura, Minora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lake nakaumi; Phytoplankton; Size fraction; Urea decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009312232     PISSN: 14398621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s102010070013     Document Type: Article

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