Nutrient ratios as a tracer and driver of ocean biogeochemistry

Annual Review of Marine Science

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 113-141

  Deutsch, Curtis ^a   Weber, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

denitrification; nitrogen; nitrogen fixation; nutrient cycles; phosphorus; phytoplankton; redfield ratio

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; DIVERSE FIELDS; EARTH SYSTEMS; METABOLIC DEMANDS; MICROBIAL LIFE; NUTRIENT CYCLE; NUTRIENT CYCLES; NUTRIENT DISTRIBUTIONS; NUTRIENT LIMITATIONS; NUTRIENT RESERVOIRS; OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; REDFIELD RATIO; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL SCALE;

DENITRIFICATION; EARTH (PLANET); NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENTS; OCEAN HABITATS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SEA WATER;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOME; DENITRIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; REDFIELD RATIO; SEAWATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOICHIOMETRY; TAXONOMY; TRACER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; SEA; TIME;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHOSPHORUS; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 83655192937     PISSN: 19411405     EISSN: 19410611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-120709-142821     Document Type: Article

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