Competition drives clumpy species coexistence in estuarine phytoplankton

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Segura, A M ^a   Kruk, C ^a,b   Calliari, D ^a   Garcia Rodriguez F ^a   Conde, D ^a   Widdicombe, C E ^c   Fort, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b Institute of Biological Research Clemente Estable   (Uruguay)

^c PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; DIATOM; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DIATOMS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872694174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01037     Document Type: Article

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