The response of phytoplankton biomass to transient mixing events in the Southern Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Fauchereau, Nicolas ^a,b   Tagliabue, Alessandro ^b   Bopp, Laurent ^c   Monteiro, Pedro M S ^a,b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; IRON; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING;

AUSTRAL SUMMERS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELS; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; FIRST ORDER; IRON-LIMITATION; MODEL OUTPUTS; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ALGAE CONTROL;

CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; IRON; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIMITING FACTOR; MIXED LAYER; MIXING; PHYTOMASS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 80052464768     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048498     Document Type: Article

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