Anoxic thermomineral cave waters and bacterial mats as habitat for freshwater nematodes

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-164

  Riess, Wolfgang ^a   Giere, Olav ^b   Kohls, Oliver ^a   Sarbu, Serban M ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Cave; Chemoautotrophic; Microbial mat; Nematodes; Optode

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033538849     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame018157     Document Type: Article

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