The cost of reducing the North Atlantic Ocean biological carbon pump

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2017, Pages

  Barange, Manuel ^a,c   Butenschön, Momme ^a   Yool, Andrew ^b   Beaumont, Nicola ^a   Fernandes, Jose A ^a   Martin, Adrian P ^b   Allen, J Icarus ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Economic valuation; North Atlantic; Ocean biochemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015297026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/FMARS.2016.00290     Document Type: Article

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