Global nutrient transport in a world of giants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 868-873

  Doughty, Christopher E ^a   Roman, Joe ^b,c   Faurby, Søren ^d   Wolf, Adam ^e   Haque, Alifa ^a   Bakker, Elisabeth S ^f   Malhi, Yadvinder ^a   Dunning, John B ^g   Svenning, Jens Christian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^g PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anadromous fish; Biogeochemical cycling; Extinctions; Megafauna; Whales

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FISH; MARINE MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEABIRD; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WHALE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CATERING SERVICE; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HISTORY; MAMMAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; FOOD; FOOD SUPPLY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MAMMALS; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84955447795     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1502549112     Document Type: Article

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