Disturbance and recovery of microbial community structure and function following Hurricane Frances

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 576-583

  Yannarell, Anthony C ^a   Steppe, Timothy F ^a   Paerl, Hans W ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DISASTER; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NATURAL DISASTERS; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 33846998983     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01173.x     Document Type: Article

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