Productivity cycles in the coastal upwelling area off Concepción: The importance of diatoms and bacterioplankton in the organic carbon flux

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 518-530

  Montero, Paulina ^a,c   Daneri, Giovanni ^a,b,c   Cuevas, L Antonio ^c   González, Humberto E ^a,c,d   Jacob, Bárbara ^b,c   Lizárraga, Lorena ^b,c   Menschel, Eduardo ^c,d  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ECOSISTEMAS DE LA PATAGONIA CIEP   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL MAR   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bacterial secondary production; Chile; Community respiration; Concepci n; Gross primary production; Time series; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; COASTAL ZONES; ECOSYSTEMS; NUTRIENTS; SEDIMENTATION;

BACTERIAL SECONDARY PRODUCTION; CARBON FLUXES; COASTAL UPWELLING; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

MICROORGANISMS;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOMASS; CARBON FLUX; DIATOM; ORGANIC CARBON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TIME SERIES; UPWELLING;

BIO-BIO; CANADA; CHILE; CONCEPCION [BIO-BIO]; HUMBOLDT; NORTH AMERICA; SASKATCHEWAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SKELETONEMA COSTATUM; THALASSIOSIRA SUBTILIS;

EID: 36048936970     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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