Salinity Responses of Benthic Microbial Communities in a Solar Saltern (Eilat, Israel)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1608-1616

  Sørensen, Ketil Bernt ^a,c   Canfield, Donald E ^a   Oren, Aharon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; METHANOGENS; MICROELECTRODES; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; REDUCTION; SALINE WATER; SEDIMENTS; SLURRIES;

ANAEROBIC MINERALIZATION; ANOXYGENIC PHOTOTROPHS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

METHANE; OXYGEN; SULFATE; SULFIDE;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SALINITY; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CYANOBACTERIUM; ISRAEL; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOGENESIS; MICROFLORA; MINERALIZATION; OXYGEN ELECTRODE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ISRAEL; METHANE; METHANOSARCINACEAE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFATES; SULFIDES;

ASIA; EILAT; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; METHANOBACTERIUM; PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 1642355207     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1608-1616.2004     Document Type: Article

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