Vertical flux of biogenic carbon in the ocean: Is there food web control?

Science

Volumn 272, Issue 5265, 1996, Pages 1163-1166

  Rivkin, Richard B ^b   Legendre, Louis ^b   Deibel, Don ^b   Tremblay, Jean Eric ^b   Klein, Bert ^b   Crocker, Kenneth ^b   Roy, Suzanne ^b   Silverberg, Norman ^b   Lovejoy, Connie ^b   Mesplé, Fabrice ^b   Romero, Nancy ^b   Anderson, M Robin ^b   Matthews, Paul ^b   Savenkoff, Claude ^b   Vézina, Alain ^b   Therriault, Jean Claude ^b   Wesson, Joel ^b   Bérubé, Chantal ^b   Ingram, R Grant ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; CANADA; FOOD CHAIN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; FOOD WEB; FOOD WEBS; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; VERTICAL FLUX;

CANADA, GULF OF ST LAWRENCE; GULF OF ST LAWRENCE;

EID: 0029667077     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5265.1163     Document Type: Article

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49. This research was done as a contribution to the programs of the Ocean Sciences Centre, GIROQ (Groupe interuniversitaire de recherches océanographiques du Québec), and thé Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Canada. The research was part of the Canadian Joint Global Ocean Flux Study program, whose principal support comes from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the DFO. We thank A. Bedi, H. Chen, M.-L. Dubé, L. Dyer, A. Gagné, C. LeDrew, S. Mazumber, S. Noonan, P. Peltolla, M. Riehl and N. Simard for technical assistance and acknowledge the contributions of the captains and crews of the research vessel CSS Hudson (DFO) and the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Sir Wilfrid Laurier for assistance with sample collection and sediment trap deployment and retrieval.