A comparison of chlorophyll/nutrient dynamics at two survey sites near South Georgia, and the potential role of planktonic nitrogen recycled by land-based predators

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1498-1508

  Whitehouse, M J ^a   Priddle, J ^a   Brandon, M A ^a   Swanson, C ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

GEORGIA;

ANIMALIA; ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA; CHRYSOLOPHUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUDYPTES CHRYSOLOPHUS; EUPHAUSIACEA; GALLUS GALLUS; GAZELLA; PHOCIDAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 0032816424     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.6.1498     Document Type: Article

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