New Production Regulates Export Stoichiometry in the Ocean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tamelander, Tobias ^a,d   Reigstad, Marit ^a   Olli, Kalle ^b   Slagstad, Dag ^c   Wassmann, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c SINTEF OCEAN   (Norway)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC NITROGEN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC REGIONS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY;

CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITROGEN; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 84872439983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054027     Document Type: Article

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