On the ecology of calcareous dinoflagellates: The Quaternary Eastern Equatorial Atlantic

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 1-25

  Höll, Christine ^a   Zonneveld, Karin A F ^a   Willems, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellates; Ecology; Equatorial Atlantic; Quaternary; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALAEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

ATLANTIC, (EQUATORIAL EAST);

ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0032007060     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(97)00033-9     Document Type: Article

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