Large-scale and mesoscale distribution of plankton biomass and metabolic activity in the Northeastern Central Atlantic

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 471-482

  Hernández León, Santiago ^a   Postel, Lutz ^b   Arístegui, Javier ^a   Gómez, May ^a   Montero, María Fernanda ^a   Torres, Santiago ^a   Almeida, Carlos ^a   Kühner, Eugen ^c   Brenning, Ullrich ^c   Hagen, Eberhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic; Biomass; Metabolism; Northeast Central; Plankton

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; GYRE; METABOLISM; PLANKTON; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0342680097     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007822921434     Document Type: Article

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