Spatial and temporal development of phytoplankton iron stress in relation to bloom dynamics in the high-latitude North Atlantic Ocean

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 533-545

  Ryan Keogh, Thomas J ^a   Macey, Anna I ^a   Nielsdóttir, Maria C ^a   Lucas, Michael I ^b   Steigenberger, Sebastian S ^a   Stinchcombe, Mark C ^c   Achterberg, Eric P ^a   Bibby, Thomas S ^a   Moore, C Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAPPING; NITRATE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ICELAND; IRMINGER SEA;

EID: 84875280343     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.2.0533     Document Type: Article

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