Micro-aerobic bacterial methane oxidation in the chemocline and anoxic water column of deep south-Alpine Lake Lugano (Switzerland)

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 311-324

  Blees, Jan ^a,d   Niemann, Helge ^a   Wenk, Christine B ^a   Zopfi, Jakob ^a   Schubert, Carsten J ^b   Kirf, Mathias K ^b   Veronesi, Mauro L ^c   Hitz, Carmen ^a   Lehmann, Moritz F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYPOLIMNION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; METHANE; METHANOTROPHY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIDATION; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATIFICATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN;

LAKE LUGANO; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84895860787     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.2.0311     Document Type: Article

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