Redfield revisited 2. What regulates the oxygen content of the atmosphere?

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 249-268

  Lenton, Timothy M ^a   Watson, Andrew J ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; OVIS VIGNEI;

ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MODEL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FIRE; MODELING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN;

EID: 0033762088     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(ISSN)1944-9224     Document Type: Article

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