The potential impact of Saharan dust and polluted aerosols on microbial populations in the East Mediterranean Sea, an overview of a mesocosm experimental approach

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2016, Pages

  Herut, Barak ^a   Rahav, Eyal ^a,b   Tsagaraki, Tatiana M ^c,d   Giannakourou, Antonia ^c   Tsiola, Anastasia ^c   Psarra, Stella ^c   Lagaria, Anna ^c   Papageorgiou, Nafsika ^c   Mihalopoulos, Nikos ^e   Theodosi, Christina N ^e   Violaki, Kalliopi ^e   Stathopoulou, Eleni ^f   Scoullos, Michael ^f   Krom, Michael D ^g,h   Stockdale, Anthony ^g   Shi, Zongbo ⁱ   Berman Frank, Ilana ^b   Meador, Travis B ^j   Tanaka, Tsuneo ^k   Paraskevi, Pitta ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^k AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

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Author keywords

Aerosols; Dust; Eastern Mediterranean Sea; Mesocosm experiments; Nutrients; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008626112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00226     Document Type: Article

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