Downward flux of particulate organic matter in the ocean: a particle decomposition paradox

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• Publication year

  1988

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1988-03-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/332438A0
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  Semantic Scholar

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