Characterization of soil microflora on a successional glacier foreland in the high Arctic on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada using phospholipid fatty acid analysis

Polar Bioscience

Volumn , Issue 19, 2006, Pages 73-84

  Yoshitake, Shinpei ^a   Uchida, Masaki ^b,c   Nakatsubo, Takayuki ^a   Kanda, Hiroshi ^b,c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

High Arctic; Microbial biomass; Microbial community structure; Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA); Primary succession after deglaciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644906626     PISSN: 13446231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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