Morphological variation of Emiliania huxleyi and sea surface salinity

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 273-288

  Bollmann, Jörg ^a,c   Herrle, Jens O ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

calcareous nannoplankton; coccolithophores; Emiliania huxleyi; morphometry; salinity

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITHOPHORES; PLACOLITHS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

MARINE BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

COCCOLITH; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); CARIBBEAN SEA;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33847305056     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.12.029     Document Type: Article

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