Effects of current velocity on the nascent architecture of stream microbial biofilms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 5443-5452

  Battin, Tom J ^a   Kaplan, Louis A ^b   Newbold, J Denis ^b   Cheng, Xianhao ^b   Hansen, Claude ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; MASS TRANSFER; POLYSACCHARIDES;

BACTERIAL MICROCOLONIES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARABINOSE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; MANNOSE; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYMER; RHAMNOSE; XYLOSE;

BIOFILM; CURRENT VELOCITY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; STREAM;

AMPEROMETRIC BIOSENSOR; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOFILM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATOM; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FROZEN SECTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; SOLUTE; STREAM (RIVER); VELOCITY;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOMASS; CARBON; ENVIRONMENT; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0141481286     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.9.5443-5452.2003     Document Type: Article

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