Global-scale variations of the ratios of carbon to phosphorus in exported marine organic matter

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 895-898

  Teng, Yi Cheng ^a   Primeau, François W ^a   Moore, J Keith ^a   Lomas, Michael W ^b   Martiny, Adam C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; GLOBAL CHANGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHOSPHORUS CYCLE; PHYTOPLANKTON; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 84927520918     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2303     Document Type: Article

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