Analysis of phytoplankton pigments by HPLC before, during and after mass occurrence of the microflagellateCorymbellus aureusduring the spring bloom in the open northern North Sea in 1983

Dominance of Cryptophyceae during the ph

Dominance of Cryptophyceae during the phytoplankton spring bloom in the central North Sea detected by HPLC analysis of pigments

✍ W. W. C. Gieskes; G. W. Kraay 📂 Article 📅 1983 🏛 Springer-Verlag 🌐 English ⚖ 660 KB

Microscopic observations of Lugol-preserved samples collected near a subsurface drogue during the spring bloom of 1981 in the central North Sea suggested that the phytoplankton crop consisted mainly of diatoms. However, the relative abundance of alloxanthin among the carotenoids measured by reversed