New and fast method to quantify respiration rates of bacterial and plankton communities in freshwater ecosystems by using optical oxygen sensor spots

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 6722-6729

  Warkentin, Mareike ^a   Freese, Heike M ^a   Karsten, Ulf ^a   Schumann, Rhena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOSENSORS; CELL CULTURE; ECOSYSTEMS; LUMINESCENCE; OXYGEN; QUENCHING;

RESPIRATION RATES; SENSOR SPOTS; SIGNAL DRIFTS; WINKLER AND CLARK ELECTRODE METHODS;

RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

OXYGEN;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OPTICAL METHOD; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLANKTON; RESPIRATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ELECTRODE; EUTROPHICATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER SPECIES; INCUBATION TIME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW TEMPERATURE; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTICAL BIOSENSOR; OPTICAL OXYGEN SENSOR SPOT METHOD; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; PLANKTON; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RELIABILITY; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINKLER AND CLARK ELECTRODE METHOD;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CELL RESPIRATION; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 35948994179     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00405-07     Document Type: Article

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