Sources and composition of organic matter for bacterial growth in a large European river floodplain system (Danube, Austria)

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 321-331

  Besemer, Katharina ^a   Luef, Birgit ^a   Preiner, Stefan ^a   Eichberger, Birgit ^a   Agis, Martin ^a   Peduzzi, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOMS; BACTERIAL GROWTHS; CARBON SOURCES; DERIVED MATERIALS; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; HIGH RATES; HYDROLOGICAL REGIMES; MICROBIAL PLANKTONS; ORGANIC MATTERS; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; RIVER DISCHARGES; RIVER-FLOODPLAIN SYSTEMS; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONALITY; SECONDARY PRODUCTIONS;

BACTERIOLOGY; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DISSOLUTION; FIRE HAZARDS; LIGNIN; OCEAN HABITATS; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHENOLS; RIVERS; WATER;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

ALGAL BLOOM; BACKWATER; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FLOODPLAIN; GROWTH RESPONSE; ORGANIC MATTER; RIVER;

BACTERIOLOGY; CARBON; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DISSOLVING; LIGNINS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHENOLS; RIVERS; WATER;

DANUBE RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POACEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 60249096103     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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