Microbial leaf degraders in boreal streams: Bringing together stochastic and deterministic regulators of community composition

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2276-2289

  Fischer, Helmut ^a,b   Bergfur, Jenny ^c   Goedkoop, Willem ^c   Tranvik, Lars ^b  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Community; Fungi; Leaf litter; Succession

Indexed keywords

ALNUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 70349862967     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02257.x     Document Type: Article

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