A comprehensive study of sterols in marine diatoms (Bacillariophyta): Implications for their use as tracers for diatom productivity

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-105

  Rampen, Sebastiaan W ^a   Abbas, Ben A ^a,b   Schouten, Stefan ^a   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMARKER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIATOM; PHYLOGENY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STEROL; TRACER;

ALGAE; AMPHIPRORA; AMPHORA; ATTHEYA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYMATOSIRALES; ENTOMONEIS; NITZSCHIA ALBA; THALASSIOSIRALES;

EID: 75749106584     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.1.0091     Document Type: Article

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