Vertical and lateral variations in coccolithophore community structure across the subtropical frontal zone in the South Atlantic Ocean

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 67, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 255-273

  Boeckel, Babette ^a   Baumann, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

coccolithophore; coccoliths; ecology; morphotypes; South Atlantic; surface sediments

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COCCOLITH; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FRONTAL FEATURE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MORPHOTYPE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOECOLOGY; PHOTIC ZONE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

ALGIROSPHAERA ROBUSTA; CALCIDISCUS LEPTOPORUS; DISCOSPHAERA TUBIFER; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; FLORISPHAERA PROFUNDA; GEPHYROCAPSA ERICSONII; HAPTOPHYCEAE; LEPTOPORUS; MICHAELSARSIA ELEGANS; OOLITHOTUS; OPHIASTER; RHABDOSPHAERA CLAVIGER; SYRACOSPHAERA; SYRACOSPHAERA ANTHOS; SYRACOSPHAERA MOLISCHII; SYRACOSPHAERA PULCHRA; UMBELLOSPHAERA IRREGULARIS; UMBELLOSPHAERA TENUIS;

EID: 43849098066     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.01.014     Document Type: Article

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