Phytoplankton morphology controls on marine snow sinking velocity

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 520, Issue , 2015, Pages 35-56

  Laurenceau Cornec, Emmanuel C ^a,b,c   Trull, Thomas W ^b,c   Davies, Diana M ^b   De La Rocha, Christina L ^d   Blain, Stéphane ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^f SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Marine snow; Phytoplankton; Porosity; Sinking velocity

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE SIZE; BIOLOGICAL PUMP; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DOMINANCE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENT TRAP;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84922310914     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: 16161599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps11116     Document Type: Article

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