Evidence for benthic-pelagic food web coupling and carbon export from California margin bamboo coral archives

Biogeosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 3845-3854

  Hill, T M ^a,b   Myrvold, C R ^a   Spero, H J ^a   Guilderson, T P ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84904789554     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-3845-2014     Document Type: Article

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