Hailstones: A Window into the Microbial and Chemical Inventory of a Storm Cloud

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Šantl Temkiv, Tina ^a   Finster, Kai ^a   Dittmar, Thorsten ^b   Hansen, Bjarne Munk ^a   Thyrhaug, Runar ^c   Nielsen, Niels Woetmann ^d   Karlson, Ulrich Gosewinkel ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED NITROGEN; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLOUD; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HABITAT QUALITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPHINGOBACTERIALES; STORM CLOUD; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON; EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; ICE; METHYLOBACTERIUM; NITROGEN; PLANTS; RAIN; SOIL; SPHINGOBACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METHYLOBACTERIUM; SPHINGOBACTERIALES;

EID: 84872778858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053550     Document Type: Article

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