Evaluating the impact of atmospheric depositions on springtime dinitrogen fixation in the cretan sea (Eastern Mediterranean)-A mesocosm approach

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2016, Pages

  Rahav, Eyal ^a,b   Shun Yan, Cheung ^c   Cui, Guo ^c   Liu, Hongbin ^c   Tsagaraki, Tatiana M ^d,e   Giannakourou, Antonia ^e   Tsiola, Anastasia ^e   Psarra, Stella ^e   Lagaria, Anna ^e   Mulholland, Margaret R ^f   Stathopoulou, Eleni ^g   Paraskevi, Pitta ^e   Herut, Barak ^a   Berman Frank, Ilana ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^f Old Dominion University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Bacterial productivity; N2 fixation; Primary productivity; Saharan dust

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008700502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00180     Document Type: Article

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