Coccolithophores in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean: Response to seasonal and Late Quaternary surface water variability

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 39, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 87-112

  Kinkel, H ^a   Baumann, K H ^a   Cepek, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coccolithophores; Equatorial Atlantic; Late Quaternary; Productivity; Recent

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOINDICATOR; CELL DENSITY; COCCOLITH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT; WATER SAMPLING;

BIOINDICATOR; COCCOLITH; NANNOPLANKTON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; QUATERNARY; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; FLORISPHAERA; FLORISPHAERA PROFUNDA; GLADIOLITHUS; GLADIOLITHUS FLABELLATUS; HAPTOPHYCEAE; INVERTEBRATA; UMBELLOSPHAERA IRREGULARIS; UMBELLOSPHAERA TENUIS;

EID: 0033934930     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(00)00016-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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