Phytoplankton dynamics in Pomquet Harbour, Nova Scotia: A lagoon in the southern Gulf of St Lawrence

Phycologia

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 311-328

  Kim, Kwang Young ^a   Garbary, David J ^b   McLachlan, Jack L ^b  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CERATIUM; CERATIUM FUSUS; EUKARYOTA; GADUS MORHUA; GONYAULAX; GONYAULAX SPINIFERA; SKELETONEMA; SKELETONEMA COSTATUM; VISCUM; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 2542450150     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-43-3-311.1     Document Type: Article

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