Planktonic carbon and nitrogen cycling off northwest Spain: Variations in production of particulate and dissolved organic pools

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-107

  Bode, Antonio ^a   Varela, Marta M ^a   Teira, Eva ^b   Fernández, Emilio ^b   González, Nicolás ^a   Varela, Manuel ^a  

^a Centro Nacional Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coastal; Dissolved organic matter; DOC; DON; Primary production; Release; Uptake

Indexed keywords

EID: 9944259073     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame037095     Document Type: Article

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