Movement of new nitrogen through oceanic food webs: a stable isotope approach
Nitrogen (N) generally limits primary production across large areas of the world's oceans. Allochthonous inputs of N (i.e., "new" N) via N2-fixing organisms (diazotrophs) are crucial for sustaining primary production and are often associated with net export of organic matter (OM) fr...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28151 |