Natural isotopic composition of carbon (σ13C) correlates with colony size in the planktonic cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 925-929

  Vuorio, Kristiina ^a   Meili, Markus ^b   Sarvala, Jouko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; COLONY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; LAKE ERKEN; LAKE PYHAJARVI; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN;

GLOEOTRICHIA; GLOEOTRICHIA ECHINULATA;

EID: 66149119388     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.3.0925     Document Type: Article

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