High resolution profiles of vertical particulate organic matter export off Cape Blanc, Mauritania: Degradation processes and ballasting effects

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 771-784

  Iversen, Morten Hvitfeldt ^a,b   Nowald, Nicolas ^b   Ploug, Helle ^a,d   Jackson, George A ^c   Fischer, Gerhard ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Degradation; Flux feeding; Fluxes; Marine snow; Particle size spectrum; Sinking velocity

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE FORMATION; ATTACHED BACTERIA; BALLAST MATERIALS; CARBON FLUXES; DEEP OCEAN SEDIMENTS; DEGRADATION PROCESS; FLUX FEEDING; GLOBAL ESTIMATE; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; LENGTH SCALE; MARINE SNOW; MASS FLUX; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; OPEN OCEAN; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICLE SIZE SPECTRUM; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; REMINERALIZATION RATE; SAHARA DESERT; SINKING VELOCITY; SURFACE OCEAN; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL FLUXES; WATER COLUMNS;

AGGREGATES; BACTERIA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DEGRADATION; FEEDING; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE WATERS; SURFACES;

AGGLOMERATION;

AGGREGATION; COCCOLITH; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEGRADATION; DUST; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OPEN OCEAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; RESPIRATION; SNOW; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN; WATER DEPTH; ZOOPLANKTON;

CAPE BLANC; MAURITANIA; SAHARA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 77952201858     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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