Organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst production, composition and flux from 1996 to 1998 in the central Strait of Georgia (BC, Canada): A sediment trap study

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 75, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 17-37

  Pospelova, Vera ^a   Esenkulova, Svetlana ^a   Johannessen, Sophia C ^b   O'Brien, Mary C ^b   Macdonald, Robie W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogenic silica; Coastal and estuarine systems; Dinoflagellate cysts; Dinoflagellates; El Ni o; Phytoplankton; Sediment trap; Strait of Georgia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRAP; SILICA; SNOWMELT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TOXIC ORGANISM;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FRASER RIVER; STRAIT OF GEORGIA;

ALEXANDRIUM; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BRIGANTEDINIUM; DINOPHYCEAE; PROTOPERIDINIUM AMERICANUM; QUINQUECUSPIS CONCRETA;

EID: 77953292774     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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