Microbial community abundance and biomass along a 180° transect in the equatorial Pacific during an El Niño-Southern Oscillation cold phase

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Brown, Susan L ^a   Landry, Michael R ^a   Neveux, Jacques ^b   Dupouy, Cécile ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Laboratoire d Océanographie Microbienne   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Equatorial Pacific; Microbial community structure; Plankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLANKTON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 1842661151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc000817     Document Type: Article

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