The potential contribution of fecal pellets from large copepods to the flux of biogenic silica and particulate organic carbon in the Antarctic Polar Front region near 170°W

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 675-691

  Dagg, Michael J ^a   Urban Rich, Juanita ^a,b   Peterson, Jay O ^a,b  

^a Louisiana Marine Consortium   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; ESTIMATION; SEAWATER; SILICA;

FECAL PELLETS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOGENIC MATERIAL; FECAL PELLET; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SILICA; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANTARCTICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; COPEPODA;

EID: 0037226979     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(02)00590-8     Document Type: Article

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