On the relationships between primary, net community, and export production in subtropical gyres

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 5-7, 2006, Pages 698-717

  Brix, Holger ^a   Gruber, Nicolas ^a   Karl, David M ^b   Bates, Nicholas R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

Particulate carbon export; Primary production; Subtropical gyres; Time series stations

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

PARTICULATE CARBON EXPORT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SUBTROPICAL GYRES; TIME-SERIES STATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GYRE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PLANKTON; REGENERATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BERMUDA; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744978992     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.01.024     Document Type: Article

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