funded by the National Key Basic Research Program from the Ministry of Science and Technology,People’s Republic of China(G1999043709,2002CB412400);supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.40176033)
The distribution of sediment chloroplastic pigments (Chl-a, i.e. chlorophylla and Pha-a, i.e. phaeophorbide a) in the Southern Yellow Sea of China was studied. Samples werecollected from four cruises in January and Ju...