Photochemical production of ammonium in the oligotrophic Cyprus Gyre (Eastern Mediterranean)

Biogeosciences

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 439-449

  Kitidis, V ^a,b   Uber, G ^a   Upstill Goddard, R C ^a   Mantoura, R F C ^b,c   Spyres, G ^b   Woodward, E M S ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c International Atomic Energy Authority Marine Ecology Laboratory   (Monaco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIFICATION; AMMONIUM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; GYRE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

ASIA; CYPRUS; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33749658820     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-3-439-2006     Document Type: Article

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