Deep ocean nutrients imply large latitudinal variation in particle transfer efficiency

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

Volumn 113, Issue 31, 2016, Pages 8606-8611

  Weber, Thomas ^a,c   Cram, Jacob A ^a   Leung, Shirley W ^a   DeVries, Timothy ^b   Deutsch, Curtis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENSITY; LATITUDE; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; TROPICS; WARMING;

EID: 84982748103     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604414113     Document Type: Article

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