Performance of sinking and nonsinking phytoplankton taxa in a gradient of mixing depths

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1903-1912

  Ptacnik, Robert ^a,b   Diehl, Sebastian ^a   Berger, Stella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH; LIGHT; MIXING; PHYTOPLANKTON;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0141540410     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.5.1903     Document Type: Article

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