Nitrate uptake at photic zone depths is not important for export in the subtropical ocean

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Painter, Stuart C ^a   Sanders, Richard ^a   Poulton, Alex J ^a   Woodward, E Malcolm S ^b   Lucas, Mike ^a   Chamberlain, Katie ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; NITRATES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CARBON FIXATION; CHLOROPHYLL; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; ENRICHMENT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NITRATE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOTIC ZONE; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 40749123003     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GB002807     Document Type: Article

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