Effects of nitrogen source on the physiology and metal nutrition of Emiliania huxleyi grown under different iron and light conditions

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 130, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 255-267

  Muggli, Deborah L ^a   Harrison, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Coccolithophore; Emiliania huxleyi; Iron; Iron limitation; Metal quotas; Nitrate; Nitrogen; Oceanic; Subarctic Pacific

Indexed keywords

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI;

EID: 0029788970     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps130255     Document Type: Article

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