Subsurface maxima of phytoplankton and chlorophyll: Steady-state solutions from a simple model

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1521-1534

  Fennel, Katja ^a   Boss, Emmanuel ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

(NORTH); CRATER LAKE; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0042071611     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.4.1521     Document Type: Article

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