Three-dimensional structure and cyanobacterial activity within a desert biological soil crust

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 372-383

  Raanan, Hagai ^a   Felde, Vincent J M N L ^b   Peth, Stephan ^c   Drahorad, Sylvie ^b   Ionescu, Danny ^d   Eshkol, Gil ^a   Treves, Haim ^a   Felix Henningsen, Peter ^b   Berkowicz, Simon M ^a   Keren, Nir ^a   Horn, Rainer ^e   Hagemann, Martin ^f   Kaplan, Aaron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOIL;

CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; SUNLIGHT;

CYANOBACTERIA; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84959536946     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12859     Document Type: Article

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