The life of diatoms in the world's oceans

Nature

Volumn 459, Issue 7244, 2009, Pages 185-192

  Armbrust, E Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIATOM; DILUTION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; GENOME; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; ORGANIC MATTER;

DIATOM; FOOD; GENOME; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIATOMS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; GLASS; HUMANS; IRON; MARINE BIOLOGY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; NITZSCHIA ALBA;

EID: 66149107356     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08057     Document Type: Review

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