Abundance and Biomass Responses of Microbial Food Web Components to Hydrology and Environmental Gradients within a Floodplain of the River Danube

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-53

  Palijan, Goran ^a  

^a JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FLOODING; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER; SEASON;

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FLOODS; FOOD CHAIN; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVERS; SEASONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84862491612     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0016-z     Document Type: Article

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