Occurrence and mechanisms of formation of a dramatic thin layer of marine snow in a shallow Pacific fjord

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 233, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-12

  Alldredge, Alice L ^a   Cowles, Timothy J ^a   MacIntyre, Sally ^a   Rines, Jan E B ^a   Donaghay, Percy L ^a   Greenlaw, Charles F ^a   Holliday, D V ^a   Dekshenieks, Margaret M ^a   Sullivan, James M ^a   Zaneveld, J Ronald V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Density discontinuity; Diatom bloom flocculation; Marine snow; Plankton distribution; Plankton patchiness; Thin layers

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; DIATOM; FJORD; MARINE SNOW; PATCHINESS; PLANKTON;

SAN JUAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

ALGAE; ASTERIONELLOPSIS; ASTERIONELLOPSIS GLACIALIS; BACILLARIOPHYTA; ODONTELLA LONGICRURIS; THALASSIONEMA; THALASSIONEMA NITZSCHIOIDES; THALASSIOSIRA;

EID: 0037150368     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps233001     Document Type: Article

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