Diversity of cyanobacteria in man-made solar saltern, Petchaburi Province, Thailand - A pilot study

Fottea

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 203-214

  Chatchawan, Thomrat ^a   Peerapornpisal, Yuwadee ^a   Komárek, Jiří ^b  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cyanobacteria; Halophiles; Halotolerants; Hypersaline environments; Solar salterns; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959758165     PISSN: 18025439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5507/fot.2011.019     Document Type: Article

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