Using Dirichlet tessellation to help estimate microbial biomass concentrations

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 205-210

  Dugan, Nicholas R ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a; Computer assisted microscopy; Coulter counting; Cyanobacteria; Dirichlet tessellation; Optical biomass estimation

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANABAENA FLOS-AQUAE; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROCYSTIS; MICROSCOPY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA FLOS-AQUAE; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 26644464141     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2005.04.003     Document Type: Article

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