Bacterial communities in Asian dust-containing snow layers on Mt. Tateyama, Japan

Bulletin of Glaciological Research

Volumn 29, Issue , 2011, Pages 31-39

  Tanaka, Daisuke ^a   Tokuyama, Yumi ^a   Terada, Yohei ^a   Kunimochi, Kohta ^a   Mizumaki, Chika ^a   Tamura, Syoko ^a   Wakabayashi, Masayuki ^a   Aoki, Kazuma ^a   Shimada, Wataru ^a   Tanaka, Hitoshi ^b   Nakamura, Shogo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE IN SAITAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asian dust; Bacterial community; Mt. Tateyama; Snow

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755197363     PISSN: 13453807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5331/bgr.29.31     Document Type: Article

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