Metabolic and structural response of hyporheic microbial communities to variations in supply of dissolved organic matter

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1608-1617

  Findlay, Stuart E G ^a   Sinsabaugh, Robert L ^b   Sobczak, William V ^c   Hoostal, M ^b  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HYPORHEIC ZONE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE;

EID: 0043073247     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.4.1608     Document Type: Article

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