Effect of salinity on growth and toxin production in cultures of the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena from Australian waters

Phycologia

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 511-522

  Blackburn, Susan I ^a   Mccausland, Malcolm A ^a   Bolch, Christopher J S ^a,b   Newman, Stuart J ^a   Jones, Gary J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NODULARIA SPUMIGENA;

EID: 0000931501     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-35-6-511.1     Document Type: Article

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