Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-507-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-507-2014
Research article
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31 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 31 Jan 2014

Microbial activity and carbonate isotope signatures as a tool for identification of spatial differences in methane advection: a case study at the Pacific Costa Rican margin

S. Krause, P. Steeb, C. Hensen, V. Liebetrau, A. W. Dale, M. Nuzzo, and T. Treude

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