Seasonality and ecology of living coccolithophores in Eastern Mediterranean coastal environments (Andros Island, Middle Aegean Sea)

Micropaleontology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-175

  Dimiza, Margarita D ^a   Triantaphyllou, Maria V ^a   Dermitzakis, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EUKARYOTE; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

AEGEAN SEA; ANDROS; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAHAMAS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALGIROSPHAERA ROBUSTA; CORISPHAERA; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE; HELLADOSPHAERA CORNIFERA; RHABDOSPHAERA CLAVIGER; SPHAEROCALYPTRA; SPHAEROCALYPTRA QUADRIDENTATA; SYRACOSPHAERA; ZYGOSPHAERA; ZYGOSPHAERA BANNOCKII;

EID: 49049099814     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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