Microcosm design and evaluation to study stream microbial biofilms

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 436-447

  Singer, Gabriel ^a   Besemer, Katharina ^a   Hödl, Iris ^a   Chlup, Annkatrin ^a   Hochedlinger, Gerald ^a   Stadler, Peter ^b   Battin, Tom J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c Inter University Centre for Aquatic Ecosystem Research   (Austria)

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BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 44649157680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2006.4.436     Document Type: Article

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