Short-term fate of phytodetritus in sediments across the Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimum Zone

Biogeosciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-53

  Andersson, J H ^a,d   Woulds, C ^b   Schwartz, M ^b,e   Cowie, G L ^b   Levin, L A ^c   Soetaert, K ^a   Middelburg, J J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^d DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE SEDIMENT; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PHYTODETRITUS; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION;

ARABIAN SEA; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 38649093990     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-5-43-2008     Document Type: Article

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