The use of phytoplankton pigments for identifying and quantifying phytoplankton groups in coastal areas: Testing the influence of light and nutrients on pigment/chlorophyll a ratios

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 192, Issue , 2000, Pages 49-63

  Schluter L ^a   Mohlenberg F ^a   Havskum, H ^a   Larsen, S ^b  

^a Intl Agency for 14C Determination   (Denmark)

^b County of Funen ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

CHEMTAX; Chlorophyll a; HPLC; Phytoplankton; Pigments

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LIGHT EFFECT; NUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0343415543     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps192049     Document Type: Article

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