Glacial-to-interglacial changes in nitrate supply and consumption in the subarctic North Pacific from microfossil-bound N isotopes at two trophic levels

Paleoceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1217-1232

  Ren, Haojia ^a,b   Studer, Anja S ^c,d   Serno, Sascha ^b,e   Sigman, Daniel M ^c   Winckler, Gisela ^b,f   Anderson, Robert F ^b,f   Oleynik, Sergey ^c   Gersonde, Rainer ^g   Haug, Gerald H ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^f Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^g ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

foraminifera bound nitrogen isotopes; INOPEX; last deglaciation; nitrate supply and consumption; stratification; subarctic North Pacific

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; FORAMINIFERA; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MICROFOSSIL; NITRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLEISTOCENE; SPONGE; STRATIFICATION; TROPHIC LEVEL; YOUNGER DRYAS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 84944390507     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002765     Document Type: Article

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