Dynamics of extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) production and loss in an estuarine, diatom-dominated, microalgal biofilm over a tidal emersion-immersion period

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 79-93

  Hanlon, A R M ^a   Bellinger, B ^b   Haynes, K ^a   Xiao, G ^a   Hofmann, T A ^a   Gretz, M R ^b   Ball, A S ^a,c   Osborn, A M ^a,d   Underwood, G J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; EXOPOLYMER; MICROALGA; TIDAL CYCLE;

COLNE ESTUARY; ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 32944467261     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.1.0079     Document Type: Article

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