Morphological changes inSkeletonema costatum(Bacillariophyceae) during a spring bloom in a marine ecosystem enclosure
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- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in British Phycological Journal
- Vol. 22 (2) , 119-124
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00071618700650141
Abstract
During a spring diatom bloom in a large marine experimental enclosure, there was a significant increase in cell dimensions of Skeletonema costatum. Over a period of 2 days, the mean value of the pervalvar axis increased from 6·7 to 12·3 μm. This change in size occurred during a period of rapid population growth. Cell diameter did not show the same dramatic increase, although there was a significant increase in cell diameter over the 18-day period of the experiment. Nutrient concentrations were high and nutrient limitation is unlikely to have been the reason for the change in cell length.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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