Abundance of picophytoplankton in the halocline of a meromictic lake, Lake Suigetsu, Japan

Limnology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 271-280

  Okada, Mari ^a   Taniuchi, Yukiko ^a   Murakami, Akio ^b   Takaichi, Shinichi ^c   Ohtake, Shinya ^a   Ohki, Kaori ^a,d  

^a FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d M and S Instruments Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lake Suigetsu; Meromictic lake; Phycoerythrin rich cyanobacteria; Picocyanobacteria; Picophytoplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOUNDARY LAYER; HALOCLINE; PICOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FUKUI; HONSHU; JAPAN; LAKE SUIGETSU; WAKASA BAY;

CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 37549003182     PISSN: 14398621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10201-007-0213-5     Document Type: Article

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