Experimental study on the effect of salinity on growth rates of Arctic-sea-ice algae from the Greenland Sea

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-8

  Zhang, Qing ^a   Gradinger, Rolf ^b   Spindler, Michael ^b  

^a Yunnan Institute of Geological Environment Monitoring   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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