Carbon pools and isotopic trends in a hypersaline cyanobacterial mat

Geobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-186

  Wieland, A ^a   Pape, T ^a,b   Mobius J ^a   Klock, J H ^a   Michaelis, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FRESH WATER; OXYGEN; POLYMER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYANOBACTERIUM; DIAGENESIS; EXOPOLYMER; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL MAT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; FRANCE; GEOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEDIMENT;

CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; FRANCE; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYMERS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BOUCHES DU RHONE; CAMARGUE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; SALINS DE GIRAUD; WESTERN EUROPE;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 38849146331     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2007.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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