Initiation of cyanobacterial blooms in a frontal region at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 98-112

  Kononen, Kaisa ^a   Kuparinen, Jorma ^a   Mäkelä, Kalervo ^a   Laanemets, Jaan ^b   Pavelson, Juss ^b   Nõmmann, Sulev ^c  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c NONE   (Estonia)

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APHANIZOMENON FLOS-AQUAE;

EID: 0030064890     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1996.41.1.0098     Document Type: Article

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