Local versus basin-scale limitation of marine nitrogen fixation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 8741-8746

  Weber, Thomas ^a,b   Deutsch, Curtis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WARMING;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; KINETICS; LIGANDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN; PLANKTON; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84902590787     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317193111     Document Type: Article

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