Carbon:Chlorophyll a ratio, assimilation numbers and turnover times of Lake Kinneret phytoplankton

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 639, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 185-196

  Yacobi, Yosef Z ^a   Zohary, Tamar ^a  

^a ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

C:Chl ratio; Monitoring database; Optimal depth

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; CHLOROPHYTES; CYANOPHYTES; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LAKE KINNERET; LONG-TERM DATABASE; NATURAL POPULATION; OPTIMAL DEPTH; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY; PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SAMPLING DATES; SINGLE SPECIES; TAXONOMIC GROUPS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TURNOVER TIME;

ALGAE CONTROL; CHLOROPHYLL; DATABASE SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PORPHYRINS;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON CYCLE; CHLOROPHYLL; DATABASE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TAXONOMY;

ISRAEL; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SEA OF GALILEE;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 75849162311     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-0023-3     Document Type: Article

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