Nutrients, primary production and microbial heterotrophy in the southeastern Chukchi Sea: Arctic summer nutrient depletion and heterotrophy

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 135, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 247-258

  Cota, G F ^a,f   Pomeroy, L R ^b   Harrison, W G ^c   Jones, E P ^c   Peters, F ^d   Sheldon Jr , W M ^b   Weingartner, T R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Microbial heterotrophy; Nutrients; Oxygen; Primary production; Respiration

Indexed keywords

HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT DEPLETION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESPIRATION;

CHUKCHI SEA;

EID: 0029669641     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps135247     Document Type: Article

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