Effects of inorganic nitrogen on taxa-specific cyanobacterial growth and nifH expression in a subtropical estuary

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2519-2532

  Moisander, Pia H ^a   Paerl, Hans W ^b   Zehr, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RESPONSE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MICROCOSM; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TOXIC ORGANISM;

ANABAENA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII;

EID: 55749095907     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.6.2519     Document Type: Article

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