The role of marsh-dominated heterotrophic continental margins in transport of CO2 between the atmosphere, the land-sea interface and the ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Cai, Wei Jun ^a   Wang, Zhaohui Aleck ^a   Wang, Yongchen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY; WETLANDS;

GLOBAL OCEAN CARBON BUDGET;

GEOPHYSICS;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; MARSH;

EID: 0345393148     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017633     Document Type: Article

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