Plankton community diversity from bacteria to copepods in bloom and non-bloom conditions in the Celtic Sea in spring

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 403-414

  Fileman, Elaine S ^a   Fitzgeorge Balfour, Tania ^a,b   Tarran, Glen A ^a   Harris, Roger P ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Celtic Sea; Diversity; Heterotrophic nanoflagellates; Mesozooplankton; Microzooplankton; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGAL BLOOM; BACTERIUM; CRUSTACEAN; DATA SET; HETEROTROPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANKTON; SILICATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPHIC LEVEL; VOLUME; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CELTIC SEA; ENGLISH CHANNEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPEPODA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79960270525     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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