Contribution of picoplankton to the total particulate organic carbon concentration in the eastern South Pacific

Biogeosciences

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 837-852

  Grob, C ^a,b,c   Ulloa, O ^a   Claustre, H ^b,c   Huot, Y ^b,c   Alarcon G ^a   Marie, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYANOBACTERIUM; EUTROPHICATION; GYRE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PICOPLANKTON; SPATIAL VARIATION; UPWELLING;

CHILE; FRENCH POLYNESIA; MARQUESAS ISLANDS; PACIFIC COAST [CHILE]; PACIFIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 35348825685     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-4-837-2007     Document Type: Article

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