Differential response of equatorial Pacific phytoplankton to iron fertilization

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 237-246

  Cavender Bares, Kent K ^a   Mann, Elizabeth L ^a   Chisholm, Sallie W ^b   Ondrusek, Michael E ^c   Bidigare, Robert R ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); IRON; PHYTOPLANKTON;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0033030890     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.2.0237     Document Type: Article

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