Main Species Characteristics of Phytoplankton Spring Blooms in NE Atlantic and Arctic Waters (68-80° N)

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 242-269

  Degerlund, Maria ^a   Eilertsen, Hans Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Diatoms; Northeast Atlantic; Phaeocystis; Phytoplankton associations; Spring bloom

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FJORD; PHYTOPLANKTON; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTEROSIRA BATHYOMPHALA; CHAETOCEROS COMPRESSUS; CHAETOCEROS DEBILIS; CHAETOCEROS FURCELLATUS; CHAETOCEROS SOCIALIS; DINOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); NITZSCHIA OCEANICA; PHAEOCYSTIS; PHAEOCYSTIS POUCHETII; SKELETONEMA COSTATUM; THALASSIOSIRA;

EID: 77952237482     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-009-9167-7     Document Type: Article

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