Iron-light interactions differ in Southern Ocean phytoplankton

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1182-1200

  Strzepek, Robert F ^a,d   Hunter, Keith A ^a   Frew, Russell D ^a   Harrison, Paul J ^b   Boyd, Philip W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIATOM; GROWTH RATE; IRON; IRRADIANCE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIGHT EFFECT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84877966714     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.4.1182     Document Type: Article

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