The effects of biogenic silica detritus, zooplankton grazing, and diatom size structure on silicon cycling in the euphotic zone of the eastern equatorial Pacific

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2608-2622

  Krause, Jeffrey W ^a   Brzezinski, Mark A ^a   Landry, Michael R ^b   Baines, Stephen B ^c   Nelson, David M ^d   Selph, Karen E ^e   Taylor, Andrew G ^b   Twining, Benjamin S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC MATERIAL; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DATA SET; DETRITUS; DIATOM; DISSOLUTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUPHOTIC ZONE; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SILICA; SIZE STRUCTURE; SURFACE WATER; UPWELLING; ZOOPLANKTON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 78649562385     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.6.2608     Document Type: Article

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