Preferential remineralization of dissolved organic phosphorus and non-Redfield DOM dynamics in the global ocean: Impacts on marine productivity, nitrogen fixation, and carbon export

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 325-340

  Letscher, Robert T ^a   Moore, J Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon export; marine DOM; marine N2 fixation; non Redfield; preferential remineralization

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; DATA SET; DISSOLVED ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; GLOBAL OCEAN; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMINERALIZATION;

REDFIELDIA;

EID: 84927627065     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GB004904     Document Type: Article

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