Microbial activity and invertebrate colonisation of wood in a New Zealand forest stream

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 271-280

  Tank, Jennifer L ^a   Winterbourn, Michael J ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Chironomidae; Endocellulase; New Zealand; Streams; Wood

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHIRONOMIDAE; COPEPODA; FAGUS; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0029776059     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.1996.9516714     Document Type: Article

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