Carbon and nitrogen cycling across the bathyal continental margins : oxygen availability and organic matter quality as controls upon sediment community activity

The bathyal continental margins (200 – 3000 m) account for 7 % of global sea floor area, but are responsible for recycling 30 % of sedimentary organic matter (OM) within the oceans. Climate-change driven expansion of oxygen minimum zones and increasing frequency of extreme weather events (storms) ma...

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Main Author: Hunter, William Ross
Published: University of Aberdeen 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.600062