Reduced nitrogen fixation in the Glacial ocean inferred from changes in marine nitrogen and phosphorus inventories

Nature

Volumn 415, Issue 6868, 2002, Pages 156-159

  Ganeshram, Raja S ^a   Pedersen, Thomas F ^b   Calvert, Stephen E ^b   François, Roger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; GLACIERS; IRON; MARINE BIOLOGY;

MARINE INVENTORIES;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PHOSPHORUS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEXICO; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLD CLIMATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MINERALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER; TIME;

EID: 0037049984     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/415156a     Document Type: Letter

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