Impact of light regimes on productivity patterns of benthic microbial mats in an antarctic lake: A modeling study

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1561-1569

  Moorhead, Daryl L ^a   Wolf, Craig F ^a   Wharton Jr , Robert A ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKE; LIGHT; LIGHT REGIME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MODELLING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY;

ANTARCTICA; SIGNY LSLAND; SOMBRE LAKE;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0031427668     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.7.1561     Document Type: Article

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