Distribution of polar membrane lipids in permafrost soils and sediments of a small high Arctic catchment

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1130-1145

  Rethemeyer, Janet ^a,b   Schubotz, Florence ^c   Talbot, Helen M ^d   Cooke, Martin P ^d   Hinrichs, Kai Uwe ^c   Mollenhauer, Gesine ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOHOPANEPOLYOLS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CELLULAR MEMBRANES; DRAINAGE AREA; ENVIRONMENTAL MARKER; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; HIGH ARCTIC; HIGH CONCENTRATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MICROBIAL GROUPS; MINERAL SOILS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; RAPID DEGRADATION; SMALL CATCHMENT; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PROFILES; SOILS AND SEDIMENTS; SURFACE SOIL; SVALBARD;

BACTERIOLOGY; CATCHMENTS; DEGRADATION; LIPIDS; PERMAFROST; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ABUNDANCE; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BIOMARKER; CYANOBACTERIUM; LIPID; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC MATTER; PERMAFROST; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PROFILE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 79951938309     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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