Upward transport of oceanic nitrate by migrating diatom mats

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6718, 1999, Pages 423-425

  Villareal, Tracy A ^a   Pilskaln, Cynthia ^b   Brzezinski, Mark ^c   Lipschultz, Fredric ^d   Dennett, Mark ^e   Gardner, George B ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Bermuda Biol Stn for Res Inc   (Bermuda)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE;

DIATOM; NITRATE; SEAWATER;

ARTICLE; DIATOM; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS MIXING; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; RHIZOSOLENIA;

EID: 0033521906     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17103     Document Type: Article

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