Strategies and rates of photoacclimation in two major southern ocean phytoplankton taxa: Phaeocystis Antarctica (haptophyta) and Fragilariopsis Cylindrus (bacillariophyceae)

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1138-1151

  Kropuenske, Lindsey R ^a   Mills, Matthew M ^a   Van Dijken, Gert L ^a   Alderkamp, Anne Carlijn ^a   Mine Berg, Gry ^a   Robinson, Dale H ^b   Welschmeyer, Nicholas A ^c   Arrigo, Kevin R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragilariopsis cylindrus; Phaeocystis antarctica; Photoacclimation; Photophysiology; Photoprotection; Ross Sea, Antarctica; Xanthophyll cycle

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYCEAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; FRAGILARIOPSIS CYLINDRUS; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PHAEOCYSTIS ANTARCTICA;

EID: 78649851367     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2010.00922.x     Document Type: Article

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