Controls of 234Th removal from the oligotrophic ocean by polyuronic acids and modification by microbial activity

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 123, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 111-126

  Xu, Chen ^a   Santschi, Peter H ^a   Hung, Chin Chang ^b   Zhang, Saijin ^a   Schwehr, Kathleen A ^a   Roberts, Kimberly A ^a   Guo, Laodong ^c   Gong, Gwo Ching ^b   Quigg, Antonietta ^a   Long, Richard A ^a,d   Pinckney, James L ^a,d   Duan, Shuiwang ^a   Amon, Rainer ^a   Wei, Ching Ling ^e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

234Th; Bacteria; Diatoms; Haptophytes; POC flux; Polysaccharides; Prymnesiophytes; Thorium scavenging; Uronic acids

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COCCOLITH; DIATOM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYSACCHARIDE; SEDIMENT TRAP; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; THORIUM ISOTOPE; UPWELLING; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 78650309365     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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