An Unaccounted Fraction of Marine Biogenic CaCO3 Particles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Heldal, Mikal ^a   Norland, Svein ^a   Erichsen, Egil S ^a   Thingstad, T Frede ^a   Bratbak, Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; POLYCARBONATE; POLYMER; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; FILTRATION; FRACTIONATION; HAPTOPHYTA; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ATMOSPHERE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; ECOSYSTEM; FRANCE; HAPTOPHYTA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NORWAY; OCEANS AND SEAS; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANKTON; SEAWATER; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SVALBARD;

EID: 84867866390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047887     Document Type: Article

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