Revisiting silicon budgets at a tropical continental shelf: Silica standing stocks in sponges surpass those in diatoms

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2001-2010

  Maldonado, Manuel ^a   Riesgo, Ana ^a   Bucci, Arianna ^a   Rützler, Klaus ^b  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DIATOM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON; REEF; SILICA; SILICON; SPONGE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; MESOAMERICAN BARRIER REEF;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 77958062586     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.5.2001     Document Type: Article

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