Particulate matter fluxes in the southern and central Kara Sea compared to sediments: Bulk fluxes, amino acids, stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes, sterols and fatty acids

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 2570-2594

  Gaye, Birgit ^a   Fahl, Kirsten ^b   Kodina, Lyudmila A ^c   Lahajnar, Niko ^a   Nagel, Birgit ^a   Unger, Daniela ^d   Gebhardt, A Catalina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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

^c VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^d LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Arctic; Carbon and nitrogen isotopes; Fatty acids; Kara Sea; Ob; River discharge; Seasonality; Sediment traps; Sterols; Yenisei

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBON ISOTOPE; FATTY ACID; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PARTICULATE FLUX; PARTICULATE MATTER; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT TRAP; STEROL;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; KARA SEA; OB RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; YENISEI RIVER;

ALGAE;

EID: 36148934125     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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