Predicted impacts of elevated temperature on the magnitude of the winter-spring phytoplankton bloom in temperate coastal waters: A mesocosm study

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 344-356

  Keller, Aimee A ^a   Oviatt, Candace A ^a   Walker, Henry A ^a,b   Hawk, Jamie D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ALGAE; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 0032988771     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.2.0344     Document Type: Article

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