Snow cover affects ice algal pigment composition in the coastal Arctic Ocean during spring

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 474, Issue , 2013, Pages 89-104

  Alou Font, Eva ^a   Mundy, Christopher John ^d   Roy, Suzanne ^a   Gosselin, Michel ^a   Agustí, Susana ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; CHEMTAX; Ice algae; Photoprotection; Pigments

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ALGAL BLOOM; BIOMASS; ICE ALGA; IRRADIANCE; PHOTOPROTECTION; PIGMENT; SNOW COVER; SPRING (SEASON);

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84874065049     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10107     Document Type: Article

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