Sources of uncertainty in assessment of marine phytoplankton communities

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 704, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 253-264

  Dromph, Karsten Mikael ^a   Agusti, Susana ^b,i   Basset, Alberto ^c   Franco, Javier ^d   Henriksen, Peter ^a   Icely, John ^e   Lehtinen, Sirpa ^f   Moncheva, Snejana ^g   Revilla, Marta ^d   Roselli, Leonilde ^c   Sørensen, Kai ^h  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^d MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^f FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^h NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Observer effect; Phytoplankton; Pigments; Sample sorting; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; TAXONOMY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84873747462     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1353-0     Document Type: Article

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