Dust-induced changes in phytoplankton composition in the Tasman Sea during the last four glacial cycles

Paleoceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Calvo, Eva ^a,b   Pelejero, Carles ^a,b   Logan, Graham A ^b   De Deckker, Patrick ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Petroleum and Marine Division   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dust; Marine productivity; Ocean carbon cycle

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; DUST; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; TASMAN SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 4544334512     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003PA000992     Document Type: Article

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