Water column biogeochemistry of oxygen minimum zones in the eastern tropical North Atlantic and eastern tropical South Pacific oceans

Biogeosciences

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3585-3606

  Löscher, Carolin R ^a,d   Bange, Hermann W ^a   Schmitz, Ruth A ^b   Callbeck, Cameron M ^c   Engel, Anja ^a   Hauss, Helena ^a   Kanzow, Torsten ^a,e   Kiko, Rainer ^a   Lavik, Gaute ^c   Loginova, Alexandra ^a   Melzner, Frank ^a   Meyer, Judith ^a   Neulinger, Sven C ^b,f   Pahlow, Markus ^a   Riebesell, Ulf ^a   Schunck, Harald ^b   Thomsen, Sören ^a   Wagner, Hannes ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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

^f Omics2viewconsulting GbR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; NITROGEN CYCLE; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMINERALIZATION; UPWELLING; WATER COLUMN; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84975744555     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-3585-2016     Document Type: Article

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