Extensive dissolution of live pteropods in the Southern Ocean

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 881-885

  Bednarsek N ^a,b,c   Tarling, G A ^a   Bakker, D C E ^b   Fielding, S ^a   Jones, E M ^d   Venables, H J ^a   Ward, P ^a   Kuzirian, A ^e   Leze B ^b   Feely, R A ^f   Murphy, E J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACIDIFICATION; ARAGONITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; DEEP WATER; DISSOLUTION; GASTROPOD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POLAR REGION; POLLUTION EFFECT; SATURATION; SURFACE WATER; UPWELLING; WATER COLUMN;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

LIMACINA HELICINA ANTARCTICA; PTEROPODA;

EID: 84870403685     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1635     Document Type: Article

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