THE SILICA CYCLE IN THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN - IS THE WEDDELL SEA ATYPICAL

International audience The lowest biogenic silica production rates in the Southern Ocean (average of 2.59 mmol Si m-2 d-1) have been recorded in an area of heavy ice cover along a transect through the Weddell Sea from Joinville Island to Cap Norvegia (November-December 1990). The associated biomass...

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Main Authors: Leynaert, Aude, Nelson, David, Queguiner, Bernard, Tréguer, Paul
Other Authors: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), College of Oceanography, Oregon State University (OSU), Laboratoire d'océanographie et de biogéochimie (LOB), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Brest (UBO)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 1993
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Online Access:https://hal.univ-brest.fr/hal-00456581
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