Global patterns of marine nitrogen fixation and denitrification

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 235-266

  Gruber, Nicolas ^a   Sarmiento, Jorge L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENITIFRICATION; DENTRIFICATION; GLOBAL SCALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN FIXATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030814810     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GB00077     Document Type: Article

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