Biogeographical patterns of phytoplankton community size structure in the oceans

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1060-1070

  Acevedo Trejos, Esteban ^a,b   Brandt, Gunnar ^a   Merico, Agostino ^a,b   Smith, S Lan ^c,d  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atlantic Meridional Transect; Environmental variability; Forecasting; Longhurst geographical classification; Phytoplankton size distribution; Trait based ecology

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORECASTING METHOD; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84881546531     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12071     Document Type: Article

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