Nitrogen fuelling of the pelagic food web of the Tropical Atlantic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Sandel, Vera ^a   Kiko, Rainer ^a   Brandt, Peter ^a   Dengler, Marcus ^a   Stemmann, Lars ^b   Vandromme, Pieter ^a   Sommer, Ulrich ^a   Hauss, Helena ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CAPE VERDE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DRY DEPOSITION; FOOD WEB; HYDROGRAPHY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; THICKNESS; TRICHODESMIUM; WET DEPOSITION; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FOOD CHAIN; METABOLISM; TROPIC CLIMATE;

TRICHODESMIUM;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FOOD CHAIN; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84939233179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131258     Document Type: Article

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