RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THE SIZE-FRACTIONATED PHYTOPLANKTON POPULATION IN TEMPERATE WATERS, ALEXANDRIA (EGYPT)

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1 National Institute of Oceanography & Fisheries, Kqyet Bey, Alexandria (Egypt

2 National Institute of Oceanography & Fisheries, Kqyet Bey, Alexandria (Egypt)

Abstract

The composition and the contribution of the 4 different cell size classes (>100, 50-100, 20-50 and 100 \im9 which seems a phosphate dependent. Salinity and silicate concentrations seem affecting the variability of the smaller size classes.

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