Phytoplankton pigments and functional types in the Atlantic Ocean: A decadal assessment, 1995-2005

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 899-917

  Aiken, Jim ^a,b   Pradhan, Yaswant ^b,c   Barlow, Ray ^d   Lavender, Sam ^b,c   Poulton, Alex ^e   Holligan, Patrick ^e   Hardman Mountford, Nick ^a,b  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for observation of Air Sea Interactions and fluXes (CASIX)   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d MARINE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical provinces; Decadal data; Functional types; Phytoplankton pigments

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY PIGMENTS; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL TRANSECT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROVINCES; CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES; DECADAL DATA; FUNCTIONAL TYPES; IN-SITU; PHYTOPLANKTON PIGMENTS; PIGMENT RATIO; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SATELLITE DATA; SEAWIFS; TOTAL CHLOROPHYLL;

ALGAE CONTROL; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; CHLOROPHYLL; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PORPHYRINS;

PAINT;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CORRELATION; DECADAL VARIATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; SATELLITE DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 67649295067     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.09.017     Document Type: Article

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