Seasonal variations in physiological parameters of phytoplankton across the North Atlantic

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-42

  Kyewalyanga, Margareth N ^a,b   Platt, Trevor ^c   Sathyendranath, Shubha ^a,c   Lutz, Vivian A ^a   Stuart, Venetia ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETER; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031860115     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/20.1.17     Document Type: Article

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