Is there a seamount effect on microbial community structure and biomass? the case study of Seine and Sedlo seamounts (Northeast Atlantic)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mendonça, Ana ^a   Arístegui, Javier ^b   Vilas, Juan Carlos ^b   Montero, Maria Fernanda ^b   Ojeda, Alicia ^c   Espino, Minerva ^b   Martins, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^c Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PICOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEAMOUNT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUTOTROPHY; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROTROPHY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON;

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; SEA WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84855980529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029526     Document Type: Article

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