Long-term trends of epilimnetic and hypolimnetic bacteria and organic carbon in a deep holo-oligomictic lake

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 644, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 279-287

  Bertoni, Roberto ^a   Callieri, Cristiana ^a   Corno, Gianluca ^a,b   Rasconi, Serena ^c   Caravati, Emanuele ^a   Contesini, Mario ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Cell biovolume; Chlorophyll a; DOC and POC; Holo oligomictic Lake Maggiore; Long term dynamics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA CELL; BIOVOLUMES; CHLOROPHYLL A; LAKE MAGGIORE; LONG TERM DYNAMICS;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE MODELS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; DYNAMICS; LAKES; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; PORPHYRINS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; CHLOROPHYLL A; CLIMATE CHANGE; EPILIMNION; HYPOLIMNION; MORPHOTYPE; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS;

LAKE MAGGIORE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77950022771     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0150-x     Document Type: Article

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