Seasonal and altitudinal variations in snow algal communities on an Alaskan glacier (Gulkana glacier in the Alaska range)

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Takeuchi, Nozomu ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alaska; community structure; glacier; snow algae

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CARBON; GLACIERS; ICE; MELTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALASKA; ALGAL BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLES; CHLAMYDOMONAS NIVALIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; SNOW AND ICE; SURFACE ALBEDO;

SNOW;

ABLATION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; ALGAL COMMUNITY; ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; COLD TOLERANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GREEN ALGA; ICE ALGA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOWMELT;

ALASKA; GULKANA GLACIER; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANCYLONEMA NORDENSKIOELDII; CHLAMYDOMONAS NIVALIS; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; MESOTAENIUM BERGGRENII;

EID: 84885462367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035002     Document Type: Article

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