Patterns in the size structure of the phytoplankton community in the deep fluorescence maximum of the Alboran Sea (southwestern Mediterranean)

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1577-1593

  Rodríguez, Jaime ^a   Blanco, José M ^a   Jiménez Gómez, Francisco ^a   Echevarría, Fidel ^c   Gil, Julio ^b   Rodríguez, Valeriano ^a   Ruiz, Javier ^c   Bautista, Begoña ^a   Guerrero, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b Centro Oceanográfico de Santander   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PHYTOPLANKTON; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THERMOCLINE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032190872     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(98)00030-2     Document Type: Article

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