The protistan microzooplankton community in the oligotrophic north-eastern Atlantic: Large- and mesoscale patterns

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 551-563

  Quevedo, Mario ^a,c   Viesca, Leticia ^a   Anadón, Ricardo ^a   Fernández, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MICROPLANKTON; PROTIST; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CILIOPHORA; DINOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA;

EID: 0037518507     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/25.5.551     Document Type: Article

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