Oceanic phytoplankton communities
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Multi-nutrient, multi-group model of present and future oceanic phytoplankton communities E. Litchman, C. A. Klausmeier, J. R. Miller, O. M. Schofield, and P. G. Falkowski Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA Michigan State University, Kellogg Biological Station, MI 49060, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Received: 16 January 2006 – Accepted: 20 January 2006 – Published: 19 June 2006 Correspondence to: E. Litchman ([email protected])
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