Importance of N2 fixation vs. nitrate eddy diffusion along a latitudinal transect in the Atlantic Ocean

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 999-1007

  Mouriño Carballido, Beatriz ^a   Graña, Rocío ^a   Fernández, Ana ^a   Bode, Antonio ^b   Varela, Manuel ^b   Domínguez, J Francisco ^c   Escánez, José ^c   de Armas, Demetrio ^c   Marañón, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b Paseo Marítimo Alcalde Francisco Vázquez   (Spain)

^c Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; DISSIPATION; EDDY; EUPHOTIC ZONE; GYRE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MICROSTRUCTURE; NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROFILER; REACTION KINETICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 79956372600     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.3.0999     Document Type: Article

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