Summer and winter denitrification rates in western Arctic shelf sediments

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1029-1033

  Devol, Allan H ^a   Codispoti, Louis A ^b   Christensen, John P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DENITRIFICATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

BEAUFORT SEA; BERING SEA; CHUKCHI SEA;

EID: 0030746754     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(97)00003-4     Document Type: Article

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