Carbon and nutrient cycling in the upper water column across the polar Frontal Zone and Antarctic circumpolar current along 170°W

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Rubin, Stephany I ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

C N P ratios; Euphotic zone; Phytoplankton; Polar front; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; EUPHOTIC ZONE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHYTOPLANKTON; WATER COLUMN;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0346304828     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gb001900     Document Type: Article

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