Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1007-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1007-2015
Research article
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17 Feb 2015
Research article |  | 17 Feb 2015

The relative importance of phytoplankton aggregates and zooplankton fecal pellets to carbon export: insights from free-drifting sediment trap deployments in naturally iron-fertilised waters near the Kerguelen Plateau

E. C. Laurenceau-Cornec, T. W. Trull, D. M. Davies, S. G. Bray, J. Doran, F. Planchon, F. Carlotti, M.-P. Jouandet, A.-J. Cavagna, A. M. Waite, and S. Blain

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