Response of tropical marine phytoplankton communities to manipulations of nutrient concentration and metazoan grazing pressure

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 397-420

  Hopcroft, Russell R ^b   Roff, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GRAZING; MICROCOSM; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CARIBBEAN SEA; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA;

METAZOA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0345295126     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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