Environmental control of open-ocean phytoplankton groups: Now and in the future

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1353-1376

  Boyd, Philip W ^a   Strzepek, Robert ^a   Fu, Feixue ^b   Hutchins, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUTURE PROSPECT; LABORATORY METHOD; OPEN OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PHAEOCYSTIS;

EID: 77954231948     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.3.1353     Document Type: Review

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