Sources of urea in arctic seas: Zooplankton metabolism

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 179, Issue , 1999, Pages 41-54

  Conover, R J ^a,b,c   Gustavson, K R ^a,d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c University of Victoria ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Arctic; Excretion; Fast ice; Nitrate; O:N ratio; Respiration; Total dissolved nitrogen; Urea; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

METABOLISM; UREA; ZOOPLANKTON;

BARROW STRAIT; CANADA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

ALGAE; CALANUS GLACIALIS; CALANUS HYPERBOREUS; COPEPODA; INVERTEBRATA; METRIDIA LONGA; PSEUDOCALANUS ACUSPES;

EID: 0033560651     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps179041     Document Type: Article

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