Global patterns in phytoplankton community size Structure-evidence for a direct temperature effect

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 497, Issue , 2014, Pages 25-38

  Mousing, Erik Askov ^a   Ellegaard, Marianne ^a   Richardson, Katherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AIC; Climate change; Community size structure; Macroecology; Phytoplankton; Temperature effect; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893763073     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10583     Document Type: Article

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