Impact of warming on phyto-bacterioplankton coupling and bacterial community composition in experimental mesocosms

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 718-733

  von Scheibner, Markus ^a   Dörge, Petra ^b,c   Biermann, Antje ^b   Sommer, Ulrich ^b   Hoppe, Hans Georg ^b   Jürgens, Klaus ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DIATOM; FOOD CHAIN; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; DIATOMS; FOOD CHAIN; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84894783423     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12195     Document Type: Article

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