Diffusive boundary layers of the colony-forming plankton alga Phaeocystis sp. - Implications for nutrient uptake and cellular growth

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1959-1967

  Ploug, Helle ^a,c   Stolte, Willem ^b,d   Jørgensen, Bo Barker ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL TRANSPORT; DIFFUSION; INORGANIC NITROGEN; KINETIC MODEL; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOSPHATE; TURBULENT FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COLONY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DIFFUSION; GROWTH; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; PHAEOCYSTIS;

EID: 0032715940     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.8.1959     Document Type: Article

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