Phytoplankton community growth-rate response to nutrient pulses in a shallow turbid estuary, Galveston Bay, Texas

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 325-339

  Örnólfsdóttir, Erla Björk ^a,b   Lumsden, S Elizabeth ^a   Pinckney, James L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; IRRADIANCE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHYTOPLANKTON;

GALVESTON BAY; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 1642361848     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbh035     Document Type: Article

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