Availability of iron and major nutrients for phytoplankton in the northeast Atlantic Ocean

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2095-2104

  Blain, Stéphane ^a   Guieu, Cécile ^b   Claustre, Hervé ^b   Leblanc, Karine ^a   Moutin, Thierry ^a   Quéguiner, Bernard ^a   Ras, Joséphine ^b   Sarthou, Géraldine ^c  

^a STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^c Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 9344219897     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.6.2095     Document Type: Article

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