Short-term temperature effects on oxygen and sulfide cycling in a hypersaline cyanobacterial mat (Solar Lake, Egypt)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 196, Issue , 2000, Pages 87-102

  Wieland, Andrea ^a   Kühl, Michael ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Microsensor; Photosynthesis; Respiration; Sulfate reduction; Sulfide oxidation; Temperature regulation

Indexed keywords

APHOTIC ZONE; DIFFUSION; EGYPT; HYPERSALINE CYANOBACTERIAL MAT; OXIDATION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN CYCLING; PHOTIC ZONE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SULFIDE CYCLING; TEMPERATURE;

CYANOBACTERIUM; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL MAT; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OXYGEN; SULFIDE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EGYPT; SOLAR LAKE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0343729319     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps196087     Document Type: Article

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