The role of arctic zooplankton in biogeochemical cycles: Respiration and excretion of ammonia and phosphate during summer

Polar Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1719-1731

  Alcaraz, M ^a   Almeda, R ^a   Calbet, A ^a   Saiz, E ^a   Duarte, C M ^b   Lasternas, S ^b   Agusti S ^b   Santiago, R ^b   Movilla, J ^a   Alonso, A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arctic; Excretion; Metabolism; Respiration; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DATA SET; EXCRETION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHOSPHATE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REDFIELD RATIO; RESPIRATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 78751591519     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0789-9     Document Type: Article

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