Quantifying habitat-specific diatom production: A critical assessment using morphological and biogeochemical markers in Antarctic marine and lake sediments

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1528-1539

  Verleyen, Elie ^a   Hodgson, Dominic A ^b   Leavitt, Peter R ^c   Sabbe, Koen ^a   Vyverman, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HABITAT TYPE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PIGMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LARSEMANN HILLS;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 4944263413     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.5.1528     Document Type: Article

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