UV-absorbing mycosporine-like compounds in planktonic and benthic organisms from a high-mountain lake

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 255-269

  Sommaruga, Ruben ^a   Garcia Pichel, Ferran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; LAKE; METHANOL; MOUNTAIN; MYCOSPORINE; MYCOSPORINE GLYCINE; PLANKTON;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PLANKTON;

AUSTRIA;

ALGAE; ASTERINA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS NIVALIS; COPEPODA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYCLOPIA; CYCLOPS; CYCLOPS ABYSSORUM; CYCLOPS ABYSSORUM TATRICUS; FORAMINIFERA; GLOEOCAPSA; SCHIZOTHRIX;

EID: 0032975595     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/archiv-hydrobiol/144/1999/255     Document Type: Article

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