Summer phytoplankton blooms in the oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: Historical perspective and recent observations

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-38

  Dore, John E ^a   Letelier, Ricardo M ^b   Church, Matthew J ^a   Lukas, Roger ^a   Karl, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diatoms; Nitrogen fixation; North Pacific Subtropical Gyre; Nutrient cycles; Particle flux; Phytoplankton blooms

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GRAVITATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; SEAWATER;

NORTH PACIFIC SUBTROPICAL GYRE; NUTRIENT CYCLES; PARTICLE FLUX; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOMS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; DIATOM; EUPHOTIC ZONE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE FLUX; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 37549055098     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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