Coccolithophore export production and response to seasonal surface water variability in the oligotrophic Cretan Sea (NE Mediterranean)

Micropaleontology

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages 127-144

  Triantaphyllou, Maria V ^a   Ziveri, Patrizia ^b   Tselepides, Anastasios ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics (IMBG)   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITH; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA SURFACE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CRETAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE; RHABDOSPHAERA; SYRACOSPHAERA;

EID: 12544254844     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/50.Suppl_1.127     Document Type: Article

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