Photosynthesis, dark respiration and pigment contents of gametophytes and sporophytes of the Antarctic brown alga Desmarestia menziesii

Botanica Marina

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 149-157

  Gomez I ^a   Wiencke, C ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; DESMARESTIA MENZIESII; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0030481733     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/botm.1996.39.1-6.149     Document Type: Article

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