Unveiling a phytoplankton hotspot at a narrow boundary between coastal and offshore waters

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 38, 2010, Pages 16571-16576

  Ribalet, Francois ^a   Marchetti, Adrian ^a   Hubbard, Katherine A ^a   Brown, Kristina ^b   Durkin, Colleen A ^a   Morales, Rhonda ^a   Robert, Marie ^c   Swalwell, Jarred E ^a   Tortell, Philippe D ^b   Armbrust, E Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecotone; Flow cytometry; High nitrate, low chlorophyll; Iron; Transition zone

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; IRON; NITRATE; WATER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPHYLL A; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COASTAL WATERS; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTONE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOMASS; CANADA; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOMASS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER;

EID: 78049309396     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005638107     Document Type: Article

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