Hidden biofilms in a far northern lake and implications for the changing Arctic
Abstract Shallow lakes are common across the Arctic landscape and their ecosystem productivity is often dominated by benthic, cyanobacterial biofilms. Many of these water bodies freeze to the bottom and are biologically inactive during winter, but full freeze-up is becoming less common with Arctic w...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-07-01
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Series: | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-017-0024-3 |