Spatio-temporal variations in protistan communities along an O 2/H2S gradient in the anoxic Framvaren Fjord (Norway)

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 89-102

  Behnke, Anke ^a   Barger, Kathryn J ^b   Bunge, John ^b   Stoeck, Thorsten ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxic; Community structure; Framvaren Fjord; Microbial diversity; Microeukaryotes; Seasonal dynamics

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN SULFIDE; OXYGEN; SEA WATER;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIVERSITY INDEX; FJORD; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXYGEN; PROTIST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NORWAY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARASITOLOGY; RNA GENE; SEASON;

BIODIVERSITY; CILIOPHORA; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTA; GENES, RRNA; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NORWAY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; SEASONS; SEAWATER;

FRAMVAREN FJORD; NORWAY; VEST AGDER;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 77949304097     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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