Carbon flux by suspended and sinking particles around the barrier reef of Palau, western Pacific

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1883-1893

  Hata, Hiroshi ^a   Suzuki, Atsushi ^b   Maruyama, Tadashi ^a   Kurano, Norihide ^a   Miyachi, Sigetoh ^a   Ikeda, Yutaka ^c   Kayanne, Hajime ^d  

^a MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c Hazama Technical Research Institute   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER REEF; CARBON FLUX; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC NITROGEN;

PALAU;

EID: 0032445440     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.8.1883     Document Type: Article

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