Plankton community composition, production, and respiration in relation to dissolved inorganic carbon on the West Florida Shelf, April 1996

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue C3, 2000, Pages 6579-6589

  Hitchcock, Gary L ^a   Vargo, Gabriel A ^b   Dickson, Mary Lynn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INORGANIC CARBON; PLANKTON; RESPIRATION;

GULF OF MEXICO; WEST FLORIDA SHELF;

EID: 0033665328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jc000293     Document Type: Article

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