Abundances and distributions of picoplankton populations in the central equatorial pacific from 12°N to 12°S, 140°W

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 4-6, 1996, Pages 871-890

  Landry, Michael R ^a   Kirshtein, Julie ^a   Constantinou, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIA; LATITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; PICOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 0030424841     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0645(96)00018-5     Document Type: Article

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