The Global Carbon Cycle: Biological Processes

Fundamentals of Geobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5-19

  Falkowski, Paul G ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'geological' or 'slow' carbon cycle, in maintaining Earth; Carbon, substrate for biological reactions; Global carbon cycle, and the biological processes; Inorganic carbon fixation, chemo and photoautotrophy; Mineral phases of inorganic carbon, inaccessible to reactions; Nutrient utilization in euphotic, NPP into lithosphere; Organic matter, leaking into lithosphere, distinguishing Earth; Organisms, and organic matter for metabolic needs, the NPP; Photoautotrophy, oxidation reduction; Terrestrial NPP, leaf cover, irradiance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886532508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118280874.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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