Carbon to volume relationships for dinoflagellates, diatoms, and other protist plankton

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 569-579

  Menden Deuer, Susanne ^a   Lessard, Evelyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; NITROGEN; PLANKTON;

EID: 0034099155     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.3.0569     Document Type: Article

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