Microbial nitrogen cycling in Arctic snowpacks

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Larose, Catherine ^a   Dommergue, Aurélien ^b   Vogel, Timothy M ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

metagenomics; microbial ecology; nitrogen cycle

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; PROBES; RNA; SNOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

AMMONIUM CONCENTRATIONS; LIMITED WATER SUPPLIES; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; NITROGEN CYCLES; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES;

NITROGEN;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GENOMICS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHYLOGENETICS; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK; WATER SUPPLY;

ARCTIC; NORWAY; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

CAULOBACTER; ROSEOMONAS;

EID: 84885440936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035004     Document Type: Article

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