Characteristics, dynamics and significance of marine snow

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 41-82

  Alldredge, Alice L ^a   Silver, Mary W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; DIATOM; FAECAL PELLETS; MARINE SNOW; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NUTRIENT REGENERATION; ORGANIC DEBRIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 0024228913     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0079-6611(88)90053-5     Document Type: Review

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