Biomasses of large-celled phytoplankton and their relation to the nitricline and grazing in the California current system off Southern California, 1994-1996

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports

Volumn 39, Issue , 1998, Pages 117-123

  Mullin, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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