Geochemical processes and chemosynthetic primary production in different thiotrophic mats of the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano (Barents Sea)

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 931-949

  Lichtschlag, Anna ^a,d   Felden, Janine ^a   Brüchert, Volker ^a   Boetius, Antje ^a,b,c   De Beer, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CARBON FIXATION; CHEMOSYNTHESIS; COLD SEEP; FLUID FLOW; METHANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUD VOLCANO; NITRATE; OXIDATION; PH; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SULFIDE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; HAKON MOSBY MUD VOLCANO;

BEGGIATOA;

EID: 78649575867     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.55.2.0931     Document Type: Article

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