Changes in primary productivity and chlorophyll a in response to iron fertilization in the Southern Polar Frontal Zone

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1324-1335

  Gervais, Frank ^a   Riebesell, Ulf ^a   Gorbunov, Maxim Y ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; IRON; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLAR FRONT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0036733405     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2002.47.5.1324     Document Type: Article

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