Export production and its regulating factors in the West Antarctica Peninsula region of the Southern Ocean

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Kuan ^a   Ducklow, Hugh ^b   Vernet, Maria ^c   Cassar, Nicolas ^d   Bender, Michael L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^c INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; CARBON EXPORT; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL REGIONS; EXPORT PRODUCTION; F-RATIO; FRESH WATER; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; IRON AVAILABILITY; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; MAJOR FACTORS; MIXED LAYER; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; MIXED LAYER WATERS; OPEN OCEAN; PALMER LTER; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION;

CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL ZONES; ISOTOPES;

ESTIMATION;

ALGA; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; CHLOROPHYLL A; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIATOM; GLACIER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MELTWATER; MIXED LAYER; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STRATIFICATION;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; VINDULA ARSINOE;

EID: 84860174880     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB004028     Document Type: Article

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