Estimated net community production during the summertime at the SEATS time-series study site, northern South China Sea: Implications for nitrogen fixation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Chou, Wen Chen ^a,b   Chen, Yuh Ling Lee ^b   Sheu, David D ^b   Shih, Yung Yen ^b   Han, Chia An ^b   Cho, Chung Lung ^b   Tseng, Chun Mao ^a   Yang, Yiing Jang ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Chinese Naval Academy Kaohsiung   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; MARINE BIOLOGY; SEAWATER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOAVAILABLE NITROGEN; MASS BALANCE CALCULATION; UNICELLULAR CYANOBACTERIA; VERTICAL DIFFUSION;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

CYANOBACTERIUM; MASS BALANCE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

CYANOBACTERIA; RICHELIA; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 34548561626     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025365     Document Type: Article

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