Planktonic dinitrogen fixation along a longitudinal gradient across the Mediterranean Sea during the stratified period (BOUM cruise)

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2257-2267

  Bonnet, S ^a   Grosso, O ^a   Moutin, T ^a  

^a STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT BUDGET; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PICOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; TRACER;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 80051974240     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-2257-2011     Document Type: Article

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