Water masses and biogeography of picoeukaryote assemblages in a cold hydrographically complex system

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 922-935

  Hamilton, Andrew K ^a   Lovejoy, Connie ^b   Galand, Pierre E ^b,c   Ingram, R Grant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPLEXITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EUKARYOTE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ACANTHAREA; BACILLARIOPHYCEAE; CERCOZOA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 44949223320     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.3.0922     Document Type: Article

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