Carbon cycling and bacterial carbon sources in pristine and impacted Mediterranean seagrass sediments

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 227-237

  Holmer, M ^a   Duarte, C M ^b   Boschker, H T S ^c   Barron C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial substrates; Carbon cycling 13C; Seagrass; Sediments; Sulfate reduction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULERPA; CAULERPA PROLIFERA; CYMODOCEA NODOSA; HALOPHILA; POSIDONIA; POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 6344233513     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame036227     Document Type: Article

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