Seasonal and interannual variability in particle fluxes of carbon, nitrogen and silicon from time series of sediment traps at Ocean Station P, 1982-1993: Relationship to changes in subarctic primary productivity

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 11-12, 1999, Pages 2735-2760

  Wong, C S ^a   Whitney, F A ^a   Crawford, D W ^a   Iseki, K ^a   Matear, R J ^a   Johnson, W K ^a   Page, J S ^a   Timothy, D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; PARTICULATE FLUX; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SILICON; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032709759     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(99)00082-X     Document Type: Article

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