Methyl halides from Antarctic macroalgae

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 773-776

  Laturnus, Frank ^a,b   Adams, Freddy C ^b   Wiencke, Christian ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; MARINE BIOLOGY; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

MACROALGAE; METHYL HALIDES; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE; GLOBAL PRODUCTION; METHYL BROMIDE; METHYL CHLORIDES; METHYL IODIDE; RELEASE RATE;

SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; BUDGET CONTROL;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; HALOGEN; MACROALGAE; METHYL HALIDE;

ANTARCTICA;

ALGAE;

EID: 0032520599     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00490     Document Type: Article

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