Respiration in the open ocean

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6914, 2002, Pages 379-384

  Del Giorgio, Paul A ^a   Duarte, Carlos M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DECOMPOSITION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SEDIMENTS;

BIOLOGICAL RESPIRATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CARBON CYCLE; OPEN OCEAN; ORGANIC MATTER; RESPIRATION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MINERALIZATION; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; REVIEW; VOLUMETRY;

ANIMALS; CARBON; LIGHT; OCEANS AND SEAS; RESPIRATION; SEAWATER; VERTEBRATES; ZOOPLANKTON;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0037191822     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01165     Document Type: Review

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