Variability of protistan and bacterial communities in two Arctic fjords (Spitsbergen)

Polar Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1521-1536

  Piquet, A M T ^a   Scheepens, J F ^a,b   Bolhuis, H ^c   Wiencke, C ^d   Buma, A G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; DGGE; Kongsfjorden; Krossfjorden; Marine microbes; Meltwater; Polar; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DINOFLAGELLATE; DOMINANCE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; MELTWATER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PROTIST; SALINITY; SURFACE WATER; TAXONOMY;

ARCTIC; KONGSFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA;

EID: 78649499731     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0841-9     Document Type: Article

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