Quantitative estimation of global patterns of surface ocean biological productivity and its seasonal variation on timescales from centuries to millennia

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 115-133

  Loubere, Paul ^a   Fariduddin, Mohammad ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0032790788     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GB900001     Document Type: Article

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