Response to and recovery from nitrogen and silicon starvation in Thalassiosira weissflogii: Growth rates, nutrient uptake and C, Si and N content per cell

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 412, Issue , 2010, Pages 57-68

  De La Rocha, Christina L ^a   Terbrüggen, Anja ^b   Völker, Christoph ^b   Hohn, Sönke ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

C N; Nitrogen starvation; Si per cell; Silicon starvation; Thalassiosira weissflogii

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIATOM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GROWTH RATE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOSPHATE; PHYTOPLANKTON; REDFIELD RATIO; SILICON; STARVATION;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII;

EID: 77955954819     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08701     Document Type: Article

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