Light dependence of selenium uptake by phytoplankton and implications for predicting selenium incorporation into food webs

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 566-578

  Baines, Stephen B ^a   Fisher, Nicholas S ^a   Doblin, Martina A ^b   Cutter, Gregory A ^b   Cutter, Lynda S ^b   Cole, Brian ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; FOOD WEB; PHYTOPLANKTON; SELENIUM;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 2142671898     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.2.0566     Document Type: Article

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