Physical forcing and phytoplankton distributions

Scientia Marina

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages 55-73

  Platt, Trevor ^a   Bouman, Heather ^b   Devred, Emmanuel ^b   Fuentes Yaco, César ^a,b   Sathyendranath, Shubha ^b  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical provinces; Diatoms; Hurricane; Ocean colour; Phytoplankton; Pigments; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PHYTOPLANKTON; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 21144449366     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.2005.69s155     Document Type: Article

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