Diatoms in peat - Dominant producers in a changing environment?

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1764-1766

  Kokfelt, Ulla ^a   Struyf, Eric ^a,b   Randsalu, Linda ^a  

^a GeoBiosphere Science Centre   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Boreal wetlands; Climate and environmental change; Diatoms; Dominant producers; Silica cycling

Indexed keywords

BOREAL WETLANDS; CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; DIATOMS; DOMINANT PRODUCERS; SILICA CYCLING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; PEAT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SILICA; WATER; WETLANDS;

VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MINERALIZATION; MIRE; PERMAFROST; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RUNOFF; WETLAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 67650084382     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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