Ethanol outperforms multiple solvents in the extraction of chlorophyll-a from biological soil crusts

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 857-861

  Lan, Shubin ^a,b   Wu, Li ^a,b   Zhang, Delu ^a,c   Hu, Chunxiang ^a   Liu, Yongding ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Development and succession; Extraction efficiency; Mass of sample; Photoautotrophic biomass; Soil characteristics

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT AND SUCCESSION; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY; MASS OF SAMPLE; PHOTOAUTOTROPHIC BIOMASS; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS;

ACETONE; AMIDES; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOLOGY; ETHANOL; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

ALGA; CHLOROPHYLL A; ETHANOL; LICHEN; MOSS; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PIGMENT; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL CRUST; SOLVENT;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 79951672062     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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