The cyanobacterial community of polygon soils at an inland Antarctic nunatak

Polar Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1505-1511

  Brinkmann, Marcus ^a   Pearce, David A ^b   Convey, Peter ^b   Ott, Sieglinde ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alexander Island; Clone library; Microbial diversity; Microbiota; TGGE

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CYANOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUNATAK; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALEXANDER ISLAND; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 34548526393     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-007-0311-1     Document Type: Article

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