Optical habitats of Ultraphytoplankton groups in the Gulf of Eilat (AQABA), Northern Red Sea

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2683-2705

  Dishon, Gal ^a,b   Dubinsky, Zvy ^a   Caras, Tamir ^c   Rahav, Eyal ^a   Bar Zeev, Edo ^a   Tzubery, Yael ^a   Iluz, David ^a,d  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; EMPIRICAL ALGORITHMS; MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON; OLIGOTROPHIC OCEANS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ALGORITHM; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; HABITAT STRUCTURE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84857948492     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.619209     Document Type: Article

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