Resource levels, allometric scaling of population abundance, and marine phytoplankton diversity

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 312-318

  Cermeño, Pedro ^a   Marañón, Emilio ^b   Harbour, Derek ^c   Figueiras, Francisco G ^d   Crespo, Bibiana G ^d   Huete Ortega, María ^b   Varela, Manuel ^e   Harris, Roger P ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

^e Centro Nacional Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLOMETRY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALIA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 38749087901     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.1.0312     Document Type: Article

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