Seasonal and spatial variability in phytoplankton biomass, productivity and growth in the northwestern Indian ocean: The southwest and northeast monsoon, 1992-1993

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 425-449

  Veldhuis, Marcel J W ^a   Kraay, Gijsbert W ^a   Van Bleijswijk, Judith D L ^a   Baars, Martien A ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MONSOON; MONSOONS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY;

INDIAN OCEAN, (NORTHWEST);

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030901237     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(96)00116-1     Document Type: Article

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