The 2008 Emiliania huxleyi bloom along the Patagonian Shelf: Ecology, biogeochemistry, and cellular calcification

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1023-1033

  Poulton, Alex J ^a   Painter, Stuart C ^a   Young, Jeremy R ^b   Bates, Nicholas R ^c   Bowler, Bruce ^d   Drapeau, Dave ^d   Lyczsckowski, Emily ^d   Balch, William M ^d  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

^d BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

calcification; coccolithophore; Emiliania huxleyi; Patagonian Shelf; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITHOPHORES; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; GLOBAL PRODUCTION; INORGANIC CARBON; INTENSIVE MEASUREMENTS; PATAGONIAN SHELF; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CARBON; ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION;

CALCITE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALCIFICATION; CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COCCOLITH; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; GLOBAL OCEAN; MORPHOTYPE; POPULATION DECLINE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PATAGONIAN SHELF; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; FRAGILARIOPSIS; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84887112435     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GB004641     Document Type: Article

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