Seasonally varying nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry of particulate organic matter in Lake Kinneret, Israel

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-85

  Hadas, Ora ^a   Altabet, Mark A ^b   Agnihotri, Rajesh ^c  

^a The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAND USE CHANGE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER COLUMN; WATERSHED;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SEA OF GALILEE;

ALGAE; APHANIZOMENON; APHANIZOMENON OVALISPORUM; CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; DEBARYA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS SP.; PERIDINIUM GATUNENSE;

EID: 61649109991     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.1.0075     Document Type: Article

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