Abundance and diversity of glacial bacteria on the Tibetan plateau with environment

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 649-655

  Zhang, Shuhong ^a,b   Yang, Guangli ^a   Hou, Shugui ^b,c   Wang, Yetang ^b,d  

^a SHANGQIU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Monitoring Centre of Ocean Environment of Shandong Province   (China)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Environment; Glacial snow; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLACIER; MICROORGANISM; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CHINA; HAILUOGOU; HAILUOGOU GLACIER; HIMALAYAS; KHUMBU HIMAL; MOUNT EVEREST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; RONGBUK GLACIER; SICHUAN; XIZANG;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77957932744     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: 15210529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490450903497222     Document Type: Article

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