Combined effects of CO2 and light on large and small isolates of the unicellular N2-fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera watsonii from the western tropical Atlantic Ocean

European Journal of Phycology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 128-139

  Garcia, Nathan S ^a   Fu, Fei Xue ^a   Breene, Cynthia L ^a   Yu, Elizabeth K ^a   Bernhardt, Peter W ^b   Mulholland, Margaret R ^b   Hutchins, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon dioxide; Crocosphaera; cyanobacteria; diazotroph; light; nitrogen fixation; ocean global change; unicellular

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DATA PROCESSING; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

CROCOSPHAERA; CROCOSPHAERA WATSONII; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84875947086     PISSN: 09670262     EISSN: 14694433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2013.773383     Document Type: Article

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