Carbon, nitrogen and O 2 fluxes associated with the cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena in the Baltic Sea

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1549-1558

  Ploug, Helle ^a,c   Adam, Birgit ^b   Musat, Niculina ^b   Kalvelage, Tim ^b   Lavik, Gaute ^b   Wolf Gladrow, Dieter ^c   Kuypers, Marcel M M ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

ammonium release; microsensors; N 2 fixation; photosynthesis; respiration; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SEA WATER;

AMMONIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIFFUSION; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUOROMETRY; GROWTH RATE; LIGHT EFFECT; LIMITING FACTOR; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN COMPOUND; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESPIRATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; DARKNESS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NODULARIA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEA;

CARBON; DARKNESS; LIGHT; NITROGEN; NODULARIA; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SEAWATER; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, SECONDARY ION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

NODULARIA; NODULARIA SPUMIGENA;

EID: 80052064284     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.20     Document Type: Article

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