Particulate organic carbon mass distribution at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 8-9, 2001, Pages 1697-1718

  Gundersen, Kjell ^a   Orcutt, Karen M ^a   Purdie, Duncan A ^b   Michaels, Anthony F ^a,b   Knap, Anthony H ^a  

^a Bermuda Biol Station for Research   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CARBON; CELLS; CHLOROPHYLL; ERROR ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; SEAWATER;

PARTICULATES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PARTICLE SETTLING; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA;

TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 0035026477     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(00)00156-9     Document Type: Article

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