The plankton community in Norwegian coastal waters-abundance, composition, spatial distribution and diel variation

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1500-1514

  Bratbak, Gunnar ^a   Jacquet, Stéphan ^b   Larsen, Aud ^c   Pettersson, Lasse H ^d   Sazhin, Andrey F ^e   Thyrhaug, Runar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UMR CARRTEL   (France)

^c Uni Research AS   (Norway)

^d NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^e SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Diversity; Ocean color; Phytoplankton; Remote sensing; Skagerrak; Virus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; CHLOROPHYLL A; COASTAL WATER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIEL VARIATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROPLANKTON; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NANOPLANKTON; OCEAN COLOR; OPEN WATER; PICOPLANKTON; SEAWIFS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TAXONOMY; VIRUS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; NORWAY; SKAGERRAK;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PEDINOPHYCEAE; RESULTOR; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 80052280844     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.06.014     Document Type: Article

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