Assessing Sub-Antarctic Zone primary productivity from fast repetition rate fluorometry

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 2179-2188

  Cheah, Wee ^a   McMinn, Andrew ^a   Griffiths, F Brian ^a,b   Westwood, Karen J ^a,c   Wright, Simon W ^a,c   Molina, Ernesto ^a   Webb, Jason P ^d   van den Enden, Rick ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^d MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

14C; Fast repetition rate fluorometry; Primary productivity; Southern Ocean; Sub Antarctic Zone

Indexed keywords

14C; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; REPETITION RATE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUB-ANTARCTIC ZONE;

FLUOROMETERS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON ISOTOPE; CELL ORGANELLE; DEEP WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLUOROMETRY; IRRADIANCE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLAR FRONT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SUBANTARCTIC REGION;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TASMANIA;

EID: 80052735708     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.05.023     Document Type: Article

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