Lower respiration in the littoral zone of a subtropical shallow lake

Macrophytes are important sources of DOC to littoral zones of lakes, but this DOC is believed to be mostly refractory to bacteria, leading to the hypothesis that bacterial metabolism is different in littoral and pelagic zones of a large subtropical shallow lake. We tested this hypothesis by three ap...

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Main Authors: Ng Haig They, David da Motta Marques, Rafael Siqueira Souza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
DOC
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00434/full