Contributions of microbial biofilms to ecosystem processes in stream mesocosms

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6965, 2003, Pages 439-442

  Battin, Tom J ^a   Kaplan, Louis A ^b   Newbold, J Denis ^b   Hansen, Claude M E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOFILMS; ESTUARIES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW;

ENERGY FLOW; NUTRIENT CYCLING;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOFILM; ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; STREAM;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOFILM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ESTUARY; FLOW KINETICS; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MESOCOSM; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TILLAGE; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ARABINOSE; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BIOMASS; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GLUCOSE; RIVERS;

EID: 0345414146     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02152     Document Type: Article

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