Biomarker and carbon isotopic constraints on bacterial and algal community structure and functioning in a turbid, tidal estuary

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 70-80

  Boschker, H T S ^a   Kromkamp, J C ^a   Middelburg, J J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION;

BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERSCHELDE; WORLD; ZEELAND;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 13444252913     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.1.0070     Document Type: Article

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