Effects of UVB radiation on a marine microphytobenthic community growing on a sand-substratum under different nutrient conditions

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1144-1152

  Wulff, Angela ^a   Wängberg, Sten Åke ^a   Sundbäck, Kristina ^a   Nilsson, Claes ^a   Underwood, Graham J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATE; CHLOROPHYLL A; COLLOID; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL; GLUCAN; HASLEA OSTREARIA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROPHYTOBENTHOS; NITZSCHIA; NUTRIENT; SWEDEN; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHYTOBENTHOS; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

SWEDEN;

HASLEA OSTREARIA; NITZSCHIA;

EID: 0033898248     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.5.1144     Document Type: Article

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