Microbial biogeography of permafrost thaw ponds across the changing northern landscape

Ecography

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 609-618

  Comte, Jérôme ^a,b   Monier, Adam ^b,c   Crevecoeur, Sophie ^a,b   Lovejoy, Connie ^a,b   Vincent, Warwick F ^a,b  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PERMAFROST; POND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THAWING;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

EID: 84940100175     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01667     Document Type: Article

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