Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-2551-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-2551-2018
Research article
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27 Apr 2018
Research article |  | 27 Apr 2018

Phytoplankton response to a plume front in the northern South China Sea

Qian P. Li, Weiwen Zhou, Yinchao Chen, and Zhengchao Wu

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