The influence of natural environmental factors on benthic diatom communities from the Windmill Islands, Antarctica

Phycologia

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 744-755

  Cunningham, Laura ^a,b   McMinn, Andrew ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 11844255470     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-43-6-744.1     Document Type: Article

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