Late summer community composition and abundance of photosynthetic picoeukaryotes in Norwegian and Barents Seas

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1677-1686

  Not, Fabrice ^a,d   Massana, Ramon ^b   Latasa, Mikel ^b   Marie, Dominique ^a   Colson, Céline ^a   Eikrem, Wenche ^c   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^b   Vaulot, Daniel ^a   Simon, Nathalie ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; PICOPLANKTON; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SUMMER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

CHLOROPHYTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; MICROMONAS PUSILLA;

EID: 25144518564     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.5.1677     Document Type: Article

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