Nitrogen stable isotope dynamics in the central Baltic Sea: Influence of deep-water renewal on the N-cycle changes

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-21

  Voß, Maren ^a   Nausch, Günter ^a   Montoya, Joseph P ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Nitrogen cycling; 15N

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; NITROGEN CYCLE; RENEWAL;

BALTIC SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 1842329204     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps158011     Document Type: Article

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