Light availability and variations in phytoplankton standing crops in a nutrient-rich blackwater river

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 916-929

  Phlips, E J ^a   Cichra, M ^a   Aldridge, F J ^a   Jembeck, J ^a   Hendrickson, J ^b   Brody, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ST JOHNS RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIMITING FACTOR; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER;

FLORIDA; SAINT JOHN'S RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034084586     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.4.0916     Document Type: Article

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