Marine Phytoplankton Temperature versus Growth Responses from Polar to Tropical Waters - Outcome of a Scientific Community-Wide Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Boyd, Philip W ^a,b,i   Rynearson, Tatiana A ^c   Armstrong, Evelyn A ^a   Fu, Feixue ^d   Hayashi, Kendra ^e   Hu, Zhangxi ^f   Hutchins, David A ^d   Kudela, Raphael M ^e   Litchman, Elena ^g   Mulholland, Margaret R ^f   Passow, Uta ^h   Strzepek, Robert F ^a,j   Whittaker, Kerry A ^c   Yu, Elizabeth ^d   Thomas, Mridul K ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Old Dominion University   (United States)

^g MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^j AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKASHIWO SANGUINEA; ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROCOSPHAERA WATSONII; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH CURVE; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROBOSCIA INERMIS; PROKARYOTE; PROROCENTRUM DONGHAIENSE; TEMPERATURE; THALASSIOSIRA; THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA; THALASSIOSIRA ROTULA; THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER;

EID: 84877998309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063091     Document Type: Article

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