Variability in pigment composition and optical characteristics of phytoplankton in the Labrador Sea and the Central North Atlantic

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 260, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-18

  Lutz, Vivian A ^a,c   Sathyendranath, Shubha ^a,b   Head, Erica J H ^b   Li, William K W ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO PESQUERO INIDEP   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Absorption; Fluorescence excitation; Photoacclimation; Photoadaptation; Phytoplankton pigments; Size fractionation

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ADAPTATION; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0242307867     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps260001     Document Type: Article

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