Phytoplankton biomass associated with mussel farms in Beatrix Bay, New Zealand

Aquaculture

Volumn 181, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 71-80

  Ogilvie, Shaun C ^a   Ross, Alex H ^b   Schiel, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Food depletion; Mussel farming; Mussels; New Zealand; Perna canaliculus; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AQUACULTURE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; NEW ZEALAND; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

AQUACULTURE; BIOMASS; MOLLUSC; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NEW ZEALAND;

BIVALVIA; PERNA CANALICULUS;

EID: 0033987275     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0044-8486(99)00219-7     Document Type: Article

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