Variations in nitrogen isotopic composition between sinking and suspended particles: implications for nitrogen cycling and particle transformation in the open ocean

Deep Sea Research Part A, Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 535-554

  Altabet, M A ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; MACROZOOPLANKTON; NITROGEN;

ATLANTIC(NORTH), SARGASSO SEA;

EID: 0024221416     PISSN: 01980149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0198-0149(88)90130-6     Document Type: Article

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