Simple mixing criteria for the growth of negatively buoyant phytoplankton

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1326-1337

  O'Brien, Katherine R ^a,c   Ivey, Gregory N ^a   Hamilton, David P ^a,d   Waite, Anya M ^a   Visser, Petra M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; MIXING; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037853293     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.3.1326     Document Type: Article

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