Stocks and fluxes of biogenic silica in the western oligotrophic equatorial Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C2, 1999, Pages 3357-3367

  Blain, Stéphane ^a   Tréguer, Paul ^a   Rodier, Martine ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^b Ctr Hosp Territorial de Noumea   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

BIOGENIC MATERIAL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SILICA;

(EQUATORIAL WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033558191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jc900037     Document Type: Article

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