Pigment fluxes from the Subtropical Convergence region, east of New Zealand: Relationships to planktonic community structure

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 441-465

  Nodder, Scott ^a   Gall, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Chlorophyll a; HPLC; Marine food webs; Particulate fluxes; Phaeopigments; Photosynthetic pigments; Subtropical Convergence

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; PARTICULATE FLUX; PIGMENT; PLANKTON; UPPER OCEAN; WATER MASS;

(SOUTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032435082     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.1998.9516836     Document Type: Article

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