Arsenic and phosphorus biogeochemistry in the ocean: Arsenic species as proxies for P-limitation

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 729-740

  Wurl, Oliver ^a,b   Zimmer, Louise ^a,c   Cutter, Gregory A ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); OCEAN; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SURFACE WATER; THRESHOLD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84875358768     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.2.0729     Document Type: Article

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