Size-ascent rate relationships in positively buoyant marine diatoms

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1514-1520

  Moore, J Keith ^a,b   Villareal, Tracy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000715291     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1996.41.7.1514     Document Type: Article

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