Calcareous cyst-producing dinoflagellates: Ecology and aspects of cyst preservation in a highly productive oceanic region

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 195, Issue , 2002, Pages 317-340

  Wendler, Ines ^a   Zonneveld, Karin A F ^a   Willems, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTECOLOGY; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ARABIAN SEA;

CACIODINELLUM ALBATROSIANUM; CALCIODINELLUM OPEROSUM; DINOPHYCEAE; SCRIPPSIELLA TROCHOIDEA; THORACOSPHAERA HEIMII;

EID: 0036915182     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.195.01.17     Document Type: Article

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