Composition of free-living, aggregate-associated and sediment surface-associated bacterial communities in the German Wadden Sea

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-30

  Stevens, Heike ^a   Brinkhoff, Thorsten ^a   Simon, Meinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregates; Bacteria; DGGE; Phytoplankton; POC; Sediment; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BACTEROIDETES PHYLUM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; ROSEOBACTER; SPHINGOBACTERIA;

EID: 13944278075     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame038015     Document Type: Article

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