The pan-Arctic biodiversity of marine pelagic and sea-ice unicellular eukaryotes: A first-attempt assessment

Marine Biodiversity

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-28

  Poulin, Michel ^a   Daugbjerg, Niels ^b   Gradinger, Rolf ^c   Ilyash, Ludmila ^d   Ratkova, Tatiana ^e   von Quillfeldt, Cecilie ^f  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Biodiversity; Pelagic; Sea ice; Unicellular eukaryotes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; CELL ORGANELLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DATABASE; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROALGA; MICROSCOPY; NOMENCLATURE; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROTIST; SEA ICE; TAXONOMY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER COLUMN;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

ARCHAEPLASTIDA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CHOANOFLAGELLIDA; CHROMALVEOLATA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; CRYPTOPHYTA; DICTYOCHOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYCEAE; EUGLENIDA; EUKARYOTA; EXCAVATA; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA;

EID: 79952576024     PISSN: 18671616     EISSN: 18671624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12526-010-0058-8     Document Type: Review

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