Extensive phytoplankton blooms in the Atlantic sector of the glacial Southern Ocean

Paleoceanography

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Abelmann, Andrea ^a   Gersonde, Rainer ^a   Cortese, Giuseppe ^a   Kuhn, Gerhard ^a   Smetacek, Victor ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL; PHYTOPLANKTON;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33646358227     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005PA001199     Document Type: Article

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