Long-term monitoring and analyses of physical factors regulating variability in coastal Antarctic phytoplankton biomass, in situ productivity and taxonomic composition over subseasonal, seasonal and interannual time scales

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 145, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 143-160

  Moline, Mark A ^a,b   Prézelin, Barbara B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Interannual variability; Phytoplankton; Primary production; Seasonal variability; Southern Ocean; Taxonomic succession

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0030302729     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps145143     Document Type: Article

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