Impact of the inflow of Vistula river waters on the pelagic zone in the Gulf of Gdańsk

Oceanologia

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 859-886

  Wielgat Rychert, Magdalena ^a   Ameryk, Anetta ^b   Jarosiewicz, Anna ^a   Kownacka, Janina ^b   Rychert, Krzysztof ^a   Szymanek, Lena ^b   Zalewski, Mariusz ^b   Agatova, Alina ^c   Lapina, Natalia ^c   Torgunova, Nadezhda ^c  

^a POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY IN S UPSK   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c RUSSIAN FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES AND OCEANOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton; Baltic Sea; Estuarine mixing; Gulf of Gda sk; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; HETEROTROPHY; INFLOW; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF GDANSK; POLAND; VISTULA RIVER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84887267273     PISSN: 00783234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5697/oc.55-4.859     Document Type: Article

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