Shrinking majority of the deep biosphere

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 15976-15977

  Jørgensen, Bo Barker ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIOSPHERE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

BIOMASS; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84867042348     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213639109     Document Type: Note

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