Effect of ammonium on nitrate utilization by Emiliania huxleyi, a coccolithophore from the oceanic northeastern Pacific

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 186, Issue , 1999, Pages 67-74

  Varela, Diana E ^a   Harrison, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammonium inhibition; Diel periodicity; Emiliania huxleyi; HNLC; Nitrate uptake; Northeastern Pacific; Ocean station Papa

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; COCCOLITH; NITRATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0033578571     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps186067     Document Type: Article

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