Picoplankton abundance and biomass across the eastern South Pacific Ocean along latitude 32.5°S

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 332, Issue , 2007, Pages 53-62

  Grob, Carolina ^a   Ulloa, Osvaldo ^a   Li, William K W ^b   Alarcón, Gadiel ^a   Fukasawa, Masao ^c   Watanabe, Shuichi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton; Carbon biomass; Cyanobacteria; Flow cytometry; Picophytoeukaryotes

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GYRE; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

CHILE; FRENCH POLYNESIA; PACIFIC COAST [CHILE]; PACIFIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); POLYNESIA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; SOUTH AMERICA; TAHITI; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 34047144328     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps332053     Document Type: Article

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