Carbon sequestration and zooplankton lunar cycles: Could we be missing a major component of the biological pump?

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2503-2512

  Hernández León, Santiago ^a   Franchy, Gara ^a   Moyano, Marta ^a   Menéndez, Inmaculada ^a   Schmoker, Claire ^a   Putzeys, Sébastien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PUMP; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DIEL MIGRATION; DUST; FISH; LUNAR CYCLE; MIXING; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHOTIC ZONE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATION; SEASONALITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

CANARY ISLANDS; SPAIN;

PISCES;

EID: 78649576482     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.6.2503     Document Type: Article

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