The role of periphytic N2 fixation for stands of macrophytes in the whitewater floodplain (várzea)

Amazoniana

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 361-375

  Kern, Jürgen ^a   Darwich, Assad ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Floodplain; N2 fixation; Nitrogen turnover; Paspalum; Periphyton

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN; MACROPHYTE; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXYGEN; PERIPHYTON; WATER LEVEL;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CYANOBACTERIA; ECHINOCHLOA; ECHINOCHLOA POLYSTACHYA; EICHHORNIA; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; PASPALUM; PASPALUM FLUITANS; POLYSTACHYA;

EID: 4043146006     PISSN: 00656755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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