Factors influencing bacterial dynamics along a transect from supraglacial runoff to proglacial lakes of a high Arctic glacieri

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 307-317

  Mindl, Birgit ^a   Anesio, Alexandre M ^b   Meirer, Katrin ^a   Hodson, Andrew J ^c   Laybourn Parry, Johanna ^d   Sommaruga, Ruben ^a   Sattler, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial production; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; High arctic glacier; Proglacial lakes; Supraglacial melt water

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER;

ABUNDANCE; FECES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; RUNOFF; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSECT;

ARCTIC; BACTERIAL FLORA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DYNAMICS; FECES; GOOSE; HABITAT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; FECES; FRESH WATER; GEESE; ICE COVER; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; MIDRE LOVENBREEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ANSER; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33846254904     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00262.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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