Quantitative dominance of seasonally persistent filamentous cyanobacteria (Planktothrix rubescens) in the microbial assemblages of a temperate lake

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-109

  Van Den Wyngaert, Silke ^a   Salcher, Michaela M ^a   Pernthaler, Jakob ^a   Zeder, Michael ^a   Posch, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGAL BLOOM; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; COMPETITIVE DISPLACEMENT; CYANOBACTERIUM; GRAZING; HETEROTROPHY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PERSISTENCE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TOXIC ORGANISM; ZOOPLANKTON;

SWITZERLAND; ZURICHSEE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 78651398353     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.1.0097     Document Type: Article

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