A sea of change: Biogeochemical variability in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

Ecosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 181-214

  Karl, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate; Food webs; Microbial ecology; Microbiology; Nutrients; Oceanography

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; NORTH PACIFIC SUBTROPICAL GYRE;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 0032805444     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900068     Document Type: Review

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