Pathways of carbon oxidation in an Arctic fjord sediment (Svalbard) and isolation of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant Fe(III)-reducing bacteria

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 322, Issue , 2006, Pages 29-41

  Vandieken, Verona ^a,b   Finke, Niko ^a,b   Jørgensen, Bo Barker ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fe reduction; Fe(III) reducing bacteria; Isolation; Psychrophiles; Sediment bag incubation; Sulfate reduction; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

CARBON; INCUBATION; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIUM; ISOLATED POPULATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MINERALIZATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; REDUCTION; SULFATE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFUROMONAS; DESULFUROMUSA; SHEWANELLA;

EID: 33750205427     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps322029     Document Type: Article

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