Assessing the dynamics and ecology of marine picophytoplankton: The importance of the eukaryotic component

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 168-179

  Worden, Alexandra Z ^a   Nolan, Jessica K ^b,c   Palenik, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^c YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT;

EUKARYOTA; OSTREOCOCCUS; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0742319983     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.1.0168     Document Type: Article

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