Role of regional bioproductivity in atmospheric CO2 changes

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 531-553

  Rich, Jonathan J ^a   Hollander, David ^a   Birchfield, G Edward ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BIOLOGICAL PUMP; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 0032732164     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GB900023     Document Type: Article

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