Distribution, abundance and size composition of heterotrophic dinoflagellates and ciliates in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1045-1065

  Lessard, Evelyn J ^a   Murrell, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; DINOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA; VISCUM ALBUM;

CILIATE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DINOFLAGELLATE; DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

SARGASSO SEA;

EID: 0030186864     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0637(96)00052-0     Document Type: Article

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