Soil microbial biomass, respiration rate, and temperature dependence on a successional glacier foreland in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 395-399

  Bekku, Yukiko Sakata ^a,b   Nakatsubo, Takayuki ^c   Kume, Atsushi ^d   Koizumi, Hiroshi ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b TSURU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SOIL BIOTA;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WORLD;

EID: 15044346880     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(2004)036[0395:smbrra]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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