Nitrate:phosphate ratios and Emiliania huxleyi blooms

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1020-1024

  Lessard, Evelyn J ^a   Merico, Agostino ^b   Tyrrell, Toby ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); BERING SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

COCCOLITHOPHORACEAE; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI;

EID: 20044392846     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.3.1020     Document Type: Review

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