Pelagic primary productivity and upper ocean nutrient dynamics across Subarctic and Arctic Seas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 7132-7152

  Varela, Diana E ^a   Crawford, David W ^a   Wrohan, Ian A ^a   Wyatt, Shea N ^a   Carmack, Eddy C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

new production; nitrogen uptake; nutrients; phytoplankton; primary productivity; urea uptake

Indexed keywords

METABOLISM; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; UREA;

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO; NEW PRODUCTION; NITROGEN SOURCES; NITROGEN UPTAKE; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INORGANIC SALT; NITROGEN COMPOUND; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; UPPER OCEAN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBARCTIC);

EID: 84892949712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009211     Document Type: Article

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