The role of environmental and spatial factors for the composition of aquatic bacterial communities

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2154-2161

  Langenheder, Silke ^a,b   Ragnarsson, Henrik ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Biogeography; Community composition; Environmental heterogeneity; Microorganisms; Rock pools; Spatial scale; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BACTERIUM; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CHLOROPHYLL A; COLONIZATION; COLOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ROCK POOL; SALINITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL DNA; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; FRESH WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SALINITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA; CHLOROPHYLL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALINITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 38449102856     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-2098.1     Document Type: Article

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