Diversity and productivity of photosynthetic picoeukaryotes in biogeochemically distinct regions of the South East Pacific Ocean

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 806-824

  Rii, Yoshimi M ^a   Duhamel, Solange ^a,b   Bidigare, Robert R ^a,c   Karl, David M ^a   Repeta, Daniel J ^a,d   Church, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FIXATION; CHLOROPHYLL A; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; EUPHOTIC ZONE; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CHILEAN MARGIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; CYANOBACTERIA; DINOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; OSTREOCOCCUS; PELAGOPHYCEAE; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 84953897104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10255     Document Type: Article

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