Use of long-term data and multivariate ordination techniques to identify environmental factors governing estuarine phytoplankton species dynamics

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2107-2127

  Rothenberger, Meghan B ^a,b   Burkholder, JoAnn M ^a   Wentworth, Thomas R ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE INDEX; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NEUSE ESTUARY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; HETEROCAPSA ROTUNDATA; HETEROSIGMA AKASHIWO; KARLODINIUM; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PFIESTERIA; PFIESTERIA-LIKE DINOFLAGELLATE; PROROCENTRUM MINIMUM; RAPHIDOPHYCEAE;

EID: 70349967660     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.6.2107     Document Type: Article

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