Competition between biological and photochemical processes in the mineralization of dissolved organic carbon

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 117-124

  Obernosterer, Ingrid ^a,b   Benner, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Laboratoire d Océanographie Microbienne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; DECOMPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; LAKE; MINERALIZATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

EID: 0742285071     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.1.0117     Document Type: Article

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