Overlooked runaway feedback in the marine nitrogen cycle: The vicious cycle

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1351-1363

  Landolfi, A ^a   Dietze, H ^a   Koeve, W ^a   Oschlies, A ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; INVENTORY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PHOSPHORUS; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 84874584143     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-1351-2013     Document Type: Article

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