Planetary fertility during the past 400 ka based on the triple isotope composition of O2 in trapped gases from the Vostok ice core

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1509-1526

  Blunier, T ^a   Bender, M L ^b   Barnett, B ^b,d   Von Fischer, J C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOSPHERE; FRACTIONATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; OXYGEN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RECONSTRUCTION; RESPIRATION; SEAWATER; STRATOSPHERE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; VOSTOK STATION;

EID: 84881094391     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1509-2012     Document Type: Article

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