Trophic cycling and carbon export relationships in the California current ecosystem

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1866-1878

  Stukel, Michael R ^a,c   Landry, Michael R ^a   Benitez Nelson, Claudia R ^b   Goericke, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; CHLOROPHYLL; FECAL PELLET; NUTRIENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPHIC CONDITIONS; TROPHIC INTERACTION; UPWELLING; ZOOPLANKTON;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80755144777     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.5.1866     Document Type: Article

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