Biological oxygen demand optode analysis of coral reef-associated microbial communities exposed to algal exudates
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Biological oxygen demand optode analysis of coral reef-associated microbial communities exposed to algal exudates
Algae-derived dissolved organic matter has been hypothesized to induce mortality of reef building corals. One proposed killing mechanism is a zone of hypoxia created by rapidly growing microbes. To investigate this hypothesis, biological oxygen demand (BOD) optodes were used to quantify the change in oxygen concentrations of microbial communities following exposure to exudates generated by turf...
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عنوان ژورنال: PeerJ
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2167-8359
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.107