Organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst production in relation to upwelling intensity and lithogenic influx in the Cape Blanc region (off north-west Africa)

Phycological Research

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 97-112

  Susek, Ewa ^a   Zonneveld, Karin A F ^a   Fischer, Gerhard ^a   Versteegh, Gerard J M ^b,c   Willems, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dust; North west Africa; Organic walled dinoflagellate cysts; Sediment trap; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; ENCYSTMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; UPWELLING;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); CAPE BLANC; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

BITECTATODINIUM SPONGIUM; DINOPHYCEAE; ECHINIDINIUM; IMPAGIDINIUM; IMPAGIDINIUM ACULEATUM; PROTOPERIDINIUM; PROTOPERIDINIUM AMERICANUM; PROTOPERIDINIUM STELLATUM; SELENOPEMPHIX; SELENOPEMPHIX QUANTA;

EID: 23844461982     PISSN: 13220829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1835.2005.tb00362.x     Document Type: Article

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