Different methods and storage duration affect measurements of epilithic extracellular enzyme activities in lotic biofilms

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 636, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 153-162

  Smucker, Nathan J ^a   Deforest, Jared L ^a   Vis, Morgan L ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Environmental assessment; Enzyme methods; Nutrients; Periphyton; Phosphatase

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955033026     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-9944-0     Document Type: Article

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