Particulate organic carbon budget in the open Algero-Balearic Basin (Western Mediterranean): Assessment from a one-year sediment trap experiment

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1530-1548

  Zúñiga, Diana ^a   Calafat, Antoni ^a   Sanchez Vidal, Anna ^a   Canals, Miquel ^a   Price, Brian ^b   Heussner, Serge ^c   Miserocchi, Stefano ^d  

^a Paleontologia i Geociències Marines ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^d ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algero Balearic Basin; Particle fluxes; Particulate organic carbon; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROLOGY; MOORING; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SEDIMENTS;

ALGERO-BALEARIC BASIN; PARTICLE FLUXES; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOORING SYSTEM; OPEN OCEAN; PARTICLE SETTLING; PARTICULATE FLUX; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT TRAP; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ALBORAN SEA; GULF OF LION; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 34547931045     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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