Abundance and biomass of nano- and microplankton during the 1995 Northeast Monsoon and Spring Intermonsoon in the Arabian Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 8-9, 1999, Pages 1691-1717

  Dennett, Mark R ^a   Caron, David A ^a   Murzov, Sergey A ^b   Polikarpov, Igor G ^b   Gavrilova, Nelli A ^b   Georgieva, Ludmila V ^b   Kuzmenko, Ludmila V ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b A O KOVALEVSKY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS OF RAS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; MICROPLANKTON; MONSOON; NANNOPLANKTON; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARABIAN SEA;

EID: 0032798713     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(99)00040-5     Document Type: Article

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