Organic carbon and microbial biomass in a raised beach deposit under terrestrial vegetation in the High Arctic, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

Polar Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-27

  Nakatsubo, Takayuki ^a   Yoshitake, Shinpei ^a   Uchida, Masaki ^b   Uchida, Masao ^c,d   Shibata, Yasuyuki ^c   Koizumi, Hiroshi ^e  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ATP; High Arctic; Microbial biomass; Organic carbon; Raised beach deposits; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

BEACH; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROORGANISM; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 41049090424     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00037.x     Document Type: Article

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