Black Sea nitrogen cycling and the preservation of phytoplankton δ15N signals during the Holocene

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Fulton, James M ^a,b   Arthur, Michael A ^a   Freeman, Katherine H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SEA; BULK SAMPLES; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; EUKARYOTIC ALGAE; GRAVITY CORE; HETEROTROPHY; HOLOCENES; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MID TO LATE HOLOCENE; N VALUE; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROGEN FRACTION; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; PHOTIC ZONE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WATER COLUMNS;

CATCHMENTS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATOLOGY; DEGRADATION; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENTS;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

BIOMASS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CYANOBACTERIUM; DETRITUS; HETEROTROPHY; HOLOCENE; HYDROGRAPH; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE SEDIMENT; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOECOLOGY; PHOTIC ZONE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; PRESERVATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BLACK SEA;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84862179521     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GB004196     Document Type: Article

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