The twelfth Tansley Lecture. Small is beautiful: The picophytoplankton

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 503-513

  Raven, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Individual differences; Resource partitioning; Variability

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 6301;

EID: 0031710866     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00233.x     Document Type: Review

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