Production of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in the open ocean by zooplankton and the colonial cyanobacterium Trichodesmium spp.

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 267, Issue , 2004, Pages 45-56

  Steinberg, Deborah K ^a   Nelson, Norman B ^b   Carlson, Craig A ^b   Prusak, Anne C ^c  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CDOM; Chromophoric dissolved organic matter; Excretion; North Atlantic; Sargasso Sea; Trichodesmium; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; OPTICAL PROPERTY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SARGASSO SEA;

AMPHIPODA; COPEPODA; POLYCHAETA; PROTOZOA; SALPIDA; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 1542790203     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps267045     Document Type: Article

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