Organic carbon fluxes, degradation, and accumulation in an anoxic basin: Sediment trap results from the Cariaco Basin

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 300-308

  Thunell, Robert C ^a   Varela, Ramon ^b   Llano, Martin ^b   Collister, James ^c   Muller Karger, Frank ^d   Bohrer, Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b FUNDACIÓN LA SALLE DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT TRAP;

CARIACO BASIN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 0034013350     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0300     Document Type: Article

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