Carbon quantity defines productivity while its quality defines community composition of bacterioplankton in subarctic ponds

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 513-525

  Roiha, Toni ^a,b   Tiirola, Marja ^a   Cazzanelli, Matteo ^c   Rautio, Milla ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Allochthonous carbon; Bacterial biomass; Bacterial community composition; Bacterial production; DOC; Ponds; Subarctic

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLOCHTHON; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOMASS; CARBON; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOTOOXIDATION; POND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84863113658     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-011-0244-1     Document Type: Article

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