Factors controlling silicon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles in high nutrient, low chlorophyll systems (the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific): Comparison with a mesotrophic system (the North Atlantic)

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1923-1968

  Pondaven, P ^a   Ruiz Pino, D ^b   Druon, J N ^a   Fravalo, C ^a   Treguer P ^a  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^b LPCM T   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NITROGEN; SILICON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

EID: 0032844405     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00033-3     Document Type: Article

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