Seagrass vegetation and meiofauna enhance the bacterial abundance in the Baltic Sea sediments (Puck Bay)

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 14372-14378

  Jankowska, Emilia ^a   Jankowska, Katarzyna ^b   Włodarska Kowalczuk, Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^b GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Benthic bacteria; Benthic communities; Eelgrass meadows; Sediment characteristics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; GRAIN SIZE; GROWTH RATE; MEADOW; MEIOFAUNA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOBENTHOS; SAMPLING; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; POLAND [CENTRAL EUROPE]; POMORSKIE; PUCK BAY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ZOSTERA MARINA;

ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BAY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; POLAND; SEASON; SEDIMENT; ZOSTERACEAE;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BAYS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; POLAND; SEASONS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; ZOSTERACEAE;

EID: 84941181104     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5049-7     Document Type: Article

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