Variability in phytoplankton community structure in response to the North Atlantic Oscillation and implications for organic carbon flux

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1591-1601

  Henson, Stephanie ^a   Lampitt, Richard ^a   Johns, David ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; GYRE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; ORGANIC CARBON; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

BACILLARIOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84867240352     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.6.1591     Document Type: Article

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