Influences of pond geochemistry, temperature, and freeze-thaw on terminal anaerobic processes occurring in sediments of six ponds of the McMurdo ice shelf, near Bratina Island, Antarctica

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 583-592

  Mountfort, Douglas O ^a   Kaspar, Heinrich F ^a   Asher, Rodney A ^a   Sutherland, Donna ^b  

^a CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; METHANE; REDUCTION; SEDIMENTS; THAWING;

TERMINAL ANAEROBIC PROCESS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ACETIC ACID; METHANE; SULFATE;

METHANOGENESIS; POND;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FREEZING; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GREEN ALGA; LOW TEMPERATURE; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POND; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PROPIONIBACTERIUM FREUDENREICHII; PROTON TRANSPORT; REDUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THAWING;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CARBON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FREEZING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN; ICE; METHANE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFATES; TEMPERATURE;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; METHANOBACTERIUM; POSIBACTERIA; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PROPIONIBACTERIUM FREUDENREICHII;

EID: 0037228944     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.1.583-592.2003     Document Type: Article

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