Long-term temporal and spatial trends in phytoplankton biomass and class-level taxonomic composition in the hydrologically variable Neuse-Pamlico estuarine continuum, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1410-1420

  Valdes Weaver, Lexia M ^a   Piehler, Michael F ^a   Pinckney, James L ^a,b   Howe, Karin E ^a   Rossignol, Karen ^a   Paerl, Hans W ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NEUSE ESTUARY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; PAMLICO SOUND; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33744917257     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.3.1410     Document Type: Article

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