Resazurin as a "smart" tracer for quantifying metabolically active transient storage in stream ecosystems

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Haggerty, Roy ^a   Martí, Eugènia ^b   Argerich, Alba ^c   Von Schiller, Daniel ^b,d   Grimm, Nancy B ^e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DYE TRACER; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HYPORHEIC ZONE; METABOLISM; MODEL TEST; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STREAM CHANNEL; TRANSFORMATION;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77954322590     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JG000942     Document Type: Article

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