Influence of the Amazon River discharge on the biogeography of phytoplankton communities in the western tropical north Atlantic

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 120, Issue , 2014, Pages 29-40

  Goes, Joaquim I ^a   Gomes, Helga do Rosario ^a   Chekalyuk, Alexander M ^a   Carpenter, Edward J ^b   Montoya, Joseph P ^c   Coles, Victoria J ^d   Yager, Patricia L ^e   Berelson, William M ^f   Capone, Douglas G ^f   Foster, Rachel A ^g   Steinberg, Deborah K ^h   Subramaniam, Ajit ^a   Hafez, Mark A ^a  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^h VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY; MICROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT; NON-METRIC MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; OLIGOTROPHIC WATERS; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; PHYTOPLANKTON PIGMENTS; SALINITY GRADIENTS; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; NITROGEN OXIDES; NUTRIENTS; RIVERS; WATER LEVELS; ALGAE;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; ESTUARINE FRONT; FLUOROMETRY; NITRITE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER PLUME; SALINITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROUS OXIDE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

AMAZON RIVER; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 84890974404     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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