Aquatic habitats and diffusion constraints affecting microbial coexistence in unsaturated porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Long, Tao ^a   Or, Dani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIFFUSION; HYDRATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DIFFUSION CONSTRAINTS; HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS; MESOSCALE MODELING; MICROBIAL LIFE;

OCEAN HABITATS;

DIVERSITY INDEX; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 25844510196     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003796     Document Type: Article

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