Environmental controls on Emiliania huxleyi morphotypes in the Benguela coastal upwelling system (SE Atlantic)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 448, Issue , 2012, Pages 51-66

  Henderiks, Jorijntje ^a   Winter, Amos ^b   Elbrächter, Malte ^c   Feistel, Rainer ^d   Van Der Plas, Anja ^e   Nausch, Guenther ^d   Barlow, Ray ^f  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e MINISTRY OF FISHERIES AND MARINE RESOURCES   (Namibia)

^f Bayworld   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Coastal upwelling; Ecology; Emiliania huxleyi; Morphology; Namibia; Plankton succession

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; COCCOLITH; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIATOM; MORPHOTYPE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUCCESSION; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENGUELA CURRENT;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE; SYRACOSPHAERA; SYRACOSPHAERA PULCHRA;

EID: 84857571469     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09535     Document Type: Article

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