Polysaccharide aggregation as a potential sink of marine dissolved organic carbon

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6986, 2004, Pages 929-932

  Engel, Anja ^a,c   Thoms, Slike ^a   Riabesell, Ulf ^a,d   Rochelle Newall, Emma ^b,e   Zondervan, Ingrid ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CARBON; GROWTH KINETICS; MARINE BIOLOGY;

ELEMENTAL CYCLING; POTENTIAL SINK;

POLYSACCHARIDES;

CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; IRON; POLYSACCHARIDE; THORIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGREGATION; BIOGENIC MATERIAL; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; EXPERIMENT; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS; MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOURCE SINK RELATIONSHIP;

BACTERIA; CARBON; KINETICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEAWATER; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 2342424248     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02453     Document Type: Article

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