Invariable biomass-specific primary production of taxonomically discrete picoeukaryote groups across the Atlantic Ocean

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3266-3274

  Grob, Carolina ^a   Hartmann, Manuela ^b   Zubkov, Mikhail V ^b   Scanlan, Dave J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CLASSIFICATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPTOPHYTA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STRAMENOPILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GEOGRAPHY; HAPTOPHYTA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEAWATER; STRAMENOPILES;

CHRYSOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PELAGOPHYCEAE;

EID: 82555187988     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02586.x     Document Type: Article

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