Salinity Impact on Bacterial Community Composition in Five High-Altitude Lakes from the Tibetan Plateau, Western China

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 462-469

  Liu, Yongqin ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a   Jiao, Nianzhi ^b   Zhu, Liping ^a   Hu, Anyi ^a   Liu, Xiaobo ^a   Gao, Jing ^a   Chen, Zhong Qiang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

bacterioplankton; high altitude lake; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GEOMICROBIOLOGY; LAKE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RNA; SALINITY; TAXONOMY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84875304466     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: 15210529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490451.2012.710709     Document Type: Article

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