Temporal variability in phytoplankton pigments, picoplankton and coccolithophores along a transect through the North Atlantic and tropical southwestern Pacific

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 689-712

  Dandonneau, Yves ^a   Montel, Yves ^b   Blanchot, Jean ^b   Giraudeau, Jacques ^c   Neveux, Jacques ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^d Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls Mer   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; COCCOLITHOPHORES; TEMPERATE LATITUDES;

PIGMENTS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE; SEA STATE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS SP.; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 33646570583     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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