Nutrient competition experiments with periphyton from the Baltic Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 140, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 161-167

  Sommer, Ulrich ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Microphytobenthos; Nutrients; Periphyton

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

COMPETITION; MICROALGAE; NUTRIENT COMPETITION; NUTRIENTS; PERIPHYTON;

BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0029664127     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps140161     Document Type: Article

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