Particulate silica and Si recycling in the surface waters of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 449-461

  Adjou, Mohamed ^a   Tréguer, Paul ^a   Dumousseaud, Cynthia ^b   Corvaisier, Rudolph ^a   Brzezinski, Mark A ^c   Nelson, David M ^a  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogenic Silica; Lithogenic Silica; Si recycling; Silica net production or dissolution; Silicate; The Eastern Equatorial Pacific

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INPUTS; AUTOTROPHIC BIOMASS; BIOGENIC SILICA; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EUPHOTIC LAYERS; LITHOGENIC SILICA; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; PRODUCTION RATES; RATE OF PRODUCTIONS; SI RECYCLING; SILICA CONCENTRATIONS; SILICA DISSOLUTION; SILICA PRODUCTION; SILICIC ACIDS; SURFACE LAYERS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; PUMPS; RECYCLING; SILICATES; SILICON; SURFACE WATERS; SURFACES;

SILICA;

AUTOTROPHY; BIOGENIC MATERIAL; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIATOM; DISSOLUTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUPHOTIC ZONE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICULATE MATTER; RECYCLING; SILICA; SILICIC ACID; SILICON; SURFACE WATER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 79951509122     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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