Nitrate supply and demand in the mixed layer of the ocean

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 254, Issue , 2003, Pages 3-9

  Platt, Trevor ^a   Sathyendranath, Shubha ^a,b   Edwards, Andrew M ^a,b   Broomhead, David S ^c   Ulloa, Osvaldo ^d  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

High nutrient low chlorophyll; HNLC; Iron fertilisation; IronEx; Plankton models

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; IRON; NITRATE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

EID: 0037702875     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps254003     Document Type: Article

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