Oxygen dynamics in permafrost thaw lakes: Anaerobic bioreactors in the Canadian subarctic

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1656-1670

  Deshpande, Bethany N ^a   Macintyre, Sally ^b   Matveev, Alex ^a   Vincent, Warwick F ^a  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOREACTOR; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LIMNOLOGY; OXYGEN; PERMAFROST; SUBARCTIC REGION; THAWING;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84949582468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10126     Document Type: Article

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