Stable phytoplankton community structure in the Arabian sea over the past 200,000 years

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6693, 1998, Pages 563-566

  Schubert, C J ^a,b   Villanueva, J ^a,e   Calvert, S E ^a   Cowie, G L ^a,f   Von Rad, U ^c   Schulz, H ^c   Berner, U ^c   Erlenkeuser, H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRASSICASTEROL; DINOSTEROL; OXYGEN; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOINDICATOR; CARBON CYCLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; ASIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; TAXONOMY;

ARABIAN SEA;

EID: 0032490994     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29047     Document Type: Article

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