HPLC phytoplankton pigments: Sampling, laboratory methods, and quality assurance procedures

NASA Technical Memorandum

Volumn , Issue 209966, 2000, Pages 154-161

  Bidigare, Robert R ^a   Trees, Charles C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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