SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATIONS OF MICROPHYTOBENTHOS IN THE BOTAFOGO AND SIRI ESTUARIES (NORTHEAST-BRAZIL)

Brazilian Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-30

  de Assis Murolo, Priscila Porchat ^a   da Costa Carvalho, Paulo Vladmir Vandenberg ^a   Carvalho, Monica Lucia Botter ^a   de Souza Santos, Lilia Pereira ^a   Dos Santos, Paulo Jorge Parreira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

biomass; chlorophyll a; microphytobenthos; nutrients; phaeopigments

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953615686     PISSN: 16798759     EISSN: 1982436X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1679-87592006000100002     Document Type: Article

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