Response of the eastern mediterranean microbial ecosystem to dust and dust affected by acid processing in the atmosphere

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Krom, Michael D ^a,b   Shi, Zongbo ^c   Stockdale, Anthony ^b   Berman Frank, Ilana ^d   Giannakourou, Antonia ^e   Herut, Barak ^f   Lagaria, Anna ^e   Papageorgiou, Nafsika ^e   Pitta, Paraskevi ^e   Psarra, Stella ^e   Rahav, Eyal ^d,f   Scoullos, Michael ^g   Stathopoulou, Eleni ^g   Tsiola, Anastasia ^e,h   Tsagaraki, Tatiana M ^e,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atmospheric acid processes; Dust; Eastern Mediterranean; Microcosm experiment; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Trace metals aluminum

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008685940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00133     Document Type: Article

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