Estimating concentrations of essential omega-3 fatty acids in the ocean: Supply and demand

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1885-1893

  Budge, Suzanne M ^a   Devred, Emmanuel ^b,d   Forget, Marie Hélène ^b,d   Stuart, Venetia ^b   Trzcinski, M Kurtis ^b   Sathyendranath, Shubha ^b,c   Platt, Trevor ^b,c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lipid; Phytoplankton; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CARBON FIXATION; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIATOM; FATTY ACID; FOOD WEB; GROWTH RATE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OCEAN COLOR; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE DATA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

BACILLARIOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84911363081     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsu003     Document Type: Article

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