Spring phytoplankton communities shaped by interannual weather variability and dispersal limitation: Mechanisms of climate change effects on key coastal primary producers

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 753-762

  Klais, Riina ^a   Tamminen, Timo ^b   Kremp, Anke ^b   Spilling, Kristian ^b   An, Byoung Woong ^c   Hajdu, Susanna ^d   Olli, Kalle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BALTICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; DATA PROCESSING; DINOFLAGELLATE; DISPERSAL; DOMINANCE; ICE COVER; LIFE CYCLE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TIME SERIES; WEATHER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF RIGA;

EID: 84875353195     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.2.0753     Document Type: Article

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