Deep chlorophyll-a maximum at one station in the middle Adriatic Sea

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-19

  Ninčević, Živana ^a   Marasović, Ivona ^a   Kušpilić, Grozdan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; STRATIFICATION;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 0036486637     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0025315402005131     Document Type: Article

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