Intense benthic grazing of phytoplankton in a coral reef

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 938-951

  Genin, Amatzia ^a   Monismith, Stephen G ^b   Reidenbach, Matthew A ^b,c   Yahel, Gitai ^a,d   Koseff, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d RUPPIN ACADEMIC CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CHLOROPHYLL A; CORAL REEF; GRAZING; MASS BALANCE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PATCHINESS; PHYTOPLANKTON; TURBULENCE;

ASIA; EILAT; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 66149106696     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.3.0938     Document Type: Article

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