The size structure of Marine Phytoplankton- What are the rules?

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports

Volumn 52, Issue , 2011, Pages 198-204

  Goericke, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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