The fate of bacterial carbon in an intertidal sediment: Modeling an in situ isotope tracer experiment

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1302-1314

  Van Oevelen, Dick ^a   Middelburg, Jack J ^a   Soetaert, Karline ^a   Moodley, Leon ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CARBON ISOTOPE; GLUCOSE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33744930586     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.3.1302     Document Type: Article

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