Functioning of a Shallow-Water Sediment System during Experimental Warming and Nutrient Enrichment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Alsterberg, Christian ^a   Sundbäck, Kristina ^a   Hulth, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PREDICTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION (BIOMASS); SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATER TRANSPORT;

AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MICROALGAE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ALGAE;

EID: 84871129329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051503     Document Type: Article

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