A discrepancy between predictions of saturating nutrient uptake models and nitrogen-to-phosphorus stoichiometry in the surface ocean

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 997-1008

  Ballantyne IV, Ford ^a   Menge, Duncan N L ^b   Weitz, Joshua S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EUPHOTIC ZONE; INORGANIC NITROGEN; INORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDICTION; SATURATION; STOICHIOMETRY; UPPER OCEAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77955589153     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.3.0997     Document Type: Article

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