Picophytoplankton dynamics and production in the Arabian Sea during the 1995 Southwest Monsoon

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 8-9, 1999, Pages 1745-1768

  Brown, Susan L ^a   Landry, Michael R ^a   Barber, Richard T ^b   Campbell, Lisa ^c   Garrison, David L ^d   Gowing, Marcia M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; MONSOON; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

ARABIAN SEA;

PHAEOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0032768993     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(99)00042-9     Document Type: Article

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