Biometry of detached Emiliania huxleyi coccoliths along the Patagonian Shelf

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 443, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-17

  Poulton, Alex J ^a   Young, Jeremy R ^b   Bates, Nicholas R ^c   Balch, William M ^d  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

^d BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcification; Coccoliths; COPAS; Emiliania huxleyi; Morphotypes; Patagonian Shelf

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CALCIFICATION; CALCITE; COCCOLITH; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DOMINANCE; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PATAGONIAN SHELF; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84555219768     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09445     Document Type: Article

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