Diatom diversity in hausburg tarn, a glacial lake on mount Kenya, East Africa

Diatom Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 255-285

  Cocquyt, Christine ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIAL LAKE; PALEOECOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; MOUNT KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ACHNANTHES; ACHNANTHIDIUM; ACHNANTHIDIUM AFFINE; ACHNANTHIDIUM MINUTISSIMUM; BACILLARIOPHYTA; NAVICULA; NAVICULA PSEUDOVENTRALIS; PINNULARIA; SURIRELLA;

EID: 36448947625     PISSN: 0269249X     EISSN: 21598347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269249X.2007.9705715     Document Type: Article

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