Picoplankton community structure on the Atlantic Meridional Transect: A comparison between seasons

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 369-386

  Zubkov, Mikhail V ^a,b   Sleigh, Michael A ^a   Burkill, Peter H ^b   Leakey, Raymond J G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PICOPLANKTON; SEASONALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0034030276     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(00)00008-2     Document Type: Review

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