Limitation of lowland riverine bacterioplankton by dissolved organic carbon and inorganic nutrients

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 652, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-117

  Westhorpe, Douglas P ^a,c   Mitrovic, Simon M ^b,c   Ryan, David ^b   Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi ^d  

^a New South Wales Office of Water   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Department of Environment Climate Change and Water   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton; Dissolved organic carbon; Flow regulation; Limitation; Microcosms; PERMANOVA; River

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIOPLANKTONS; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; FLOOD-PLAINS; FLOW REGULATION; IN-SITU; INORGANIC NUTRIENTS; LEACHATES; LOWLAND RIVERS; PERMANOVA;

ALGAE CONTROL; CHLOROPHYLL; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; GLUCOSE; LEACHING; NUTRIENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PORPHYRINS; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW REGULATION; GLUCOSE; HETEROTROPHY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INORGANIC COMPOUND; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MICROCOSM; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESPIRATION; RIVER FLOW; SEASONALITY; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA; NAMOI RIVER; NEW SOUTH WALES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ELAGATIS; SALIX;

EID: 77954668176     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0322-8     Document Type: Article

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