Effects of phytoplankton community on production, size and export of large aggregates: A world-ocean analysis

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1951-1963

  Guidi, Lionel ^a,b,d   Stemmann, Lars ^a,b   Jackson, George A ^c   Ibanez, Fred́eŕic ^a,b   Claustre, Hervé ^a,b   Legendre, Louis ^a,b   Picheral, Marc ^a,b   Gorsky, Gabriel ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 70349959731     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.6.1951     Document Type: Article

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