Seasonal and spatial variability of coccolithophore export production at the South-Western margin of Crete (Eastern Mediterranean)

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 131-147

  Malinverno, E ^a   Triantaphyllou, M V ^b   Stavrakakis, S ^c   Ziveri, P ^d,e   Lykousis, V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coccolithophores; Seasonality; Sediment traps; South western Cretan margin

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITH; EUKARYOTE; MOORING SYSTEM; PHOTIC ZONE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRAP; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBMARINE CANYON; TIME SERIES;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CORONOSPHAERA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; SYRACOSPHAERA; SYRACOSPHAERA PULCHRA; TUBIFERA; UMBILICOSPHAERA;

EID: 67349207387     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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