Response of phytoplankton community structure and taxon-specific growth rates to seasonally varying physical forcing in the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 921-935

  Goericke, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; GROWTH RATE; PHYTOPLANKTON; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SARGASSO SEA;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYCEAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOBACTERIUM; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PELAGOPHYCEAE; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PRYMNESIOPHYTA;

EID: 0031668614     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.5.0921     Document Type: Article

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