Dancing with the Tides: Fluctuations of Coastal Phytoplankton Orchestrated by Different Oscillatory Modes of the Tidal Cycle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Blauw, Anouk N ^a,b   Benincà, Elisa ^a   Laane, Remi W P M ^a,b   Greenwood, Naomi ^c   Huisman, Jef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; COASTAL WATERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SALINITY; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TIDAL CYCLE; TIDE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHLOROPHYLL; EUTROPHICATION; FLUORESCENCE; NORTH SEA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIDAL WAVES; TIME FACTORS;

ALGAE;

EID: 84869122121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049319     Document Type: Article

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