Growth rates, half-saturation constants, and silicate, nitrate, and phosphate depletion in relation to iron availability of four large, open-ocean diatoms from the Southern Ocean

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2141-2151

  Timmermans, Klaas R ^a   Van Der Wagt, Bas ^a,b   De Baar, Hein J W ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; GROWTH RATE; IRON; NITRATE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHATE; SILICATE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WORLD;

ACTINOCYCLUS; ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CORETHRON PENNATUM; EUKARYOTA; FRAGILARIOPSIS; FRAGILARIOPSIS KERGUELENSIS; THALASSIOSIRA;

EID: 9244262506     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.6.2141     Document Type: Article

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