Organic carbon partitioning during spring phytoplankton blooms in the Ross Sea polynya and the Sargasso Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 375-386

  Carlson, Craig A ^a   Ducklow, Hugh W ^b   Hansell, Dennis A ^c   Smith Jr , Walker O ^d  

^a BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^c Bermuda Biol Station for Research

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PARTITIONING;

ATLANTIC; ROSS SEA; SARGASSO SEA;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHAEOCYSTIS;

EID: 0031839789     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.3.0375     Document Type: Article

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