Environmental influence on phytoplankton production during summer on the KwaZulu-Natal shelf of the Agulhas ecosystemFootnote

^§One of a series of papers from a multi-disciplinary project on ecosystem processes in the KwaZulu-Natal Bight, others of which form a special issue of Volume 38

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