Influence of the Amazon River plume on distributions of free-living and symbiotic cyanobacteria in the western tropical north Atlantic Ocean

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 517-532

  Foster, R A ^a,b   Subramaniam, A ^b   Mahaffey, C ^c   Carpenter, E J ^d   Capone, D G ^e   Zehr, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RIVER PLUME; TROPHIC CASCADE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

AMAZON RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CALOTHRIX; CYANOBACTERIA; HEMIAULUS HAUCKII; RHIZOSOLENIA CLEVEI; RICHELIA; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 34249653265     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.2.0517     Document Type: Article

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