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{"title":"Comparison of two tagging techniques for Sarpa salpa: external attachment and intraperitoneal implantation","authors":"Catherine Jadot","doi":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00044-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00044-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For a given species in a particular environment, the success and the harmlessness of transmitter attachment appear to be highly specific. As no information was available for the tagging of the strepie, <span><em>Sarpa salpa</em></span>, a suitability study of attachment techniques was needed. Two types of transmitter attachments were investigated: (1) externally, placed on the back of the fish below the dorsal fin by means of two threads sutured through the dorsal musculature, and (2) internally, in the peritoneal cavity. Twenty-five fish were monitored over a 14-d period for survival, surgical healing, injury occurrence and post-tagging behaviour. Even though we observed a 100% survival rate for both groups, with no noticeable buoyancy or swimming alteration, findings from this study indicate that both groups of tagged fish were affected by the presence of the transmitter in different ways. Fish with an external transmitter were chronically affected, incurring physical impact, whereas the surgically-implanted fish exhibited short-term tagging effects (less than 36 h), attributable to surgery effects, and were not subject to fouling on transmitter or wound chafing. Moreover, they appeared to recover quickly with no indication of long-term effects. Based on the findings of this study, the use of the surgical implantation method for <em>Sarpa salpa</em> is recommended.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100980,"journal":{"name":"Oceanologica Acta","volume":"26 5","pages":"Pages 497-501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00044-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86038278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What a lucky shot! Photographic evidence for a medium-sized natural food-fall at the deep seafloor","authors":"Thomas Soltwedel,&nbsp;Karen von Juterzenka,&nbsp;Katrin Premke,&nbsp;Michael Klages","doi":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00060-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00060-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Although the use of deep-sea imagery considerably increased during the last decades, reports on nekton<span> falls to the deep seafloor are very scarce. Whereas there are a few reports describing the finding of whale carcasses in the deep north-eastern and south-eastern Pacific, descriptions of invertebrate or vertebrate food-falls at centimetre to metre scale are extremely rare. After 4 years of extensive work at a deep-sea long-term station in northern polar regions (AWI-“Hausgarten”), including large-scale visual observations with various camera systems covering some 10 000 m</span></span>²<span> of seafloor at water depths between 1250 and 5600 m, this paper describes the first observation of a fish carcass at about 1280 m water depth, west off Svålbard<span>. The fish skeleton had a total length of 36 cm and an approximated biomass of 0.5 kg wet weight. On the basis of in situ experiments, we estimated a very short residence time of this particular carcass of about 7 h at the bottom. The fast response of the motile deep-sea scavenger community to such events and the rapid utilisation of this kind of organic carbon supply might partly explain the extreme rarity of such an observation.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":100980,"journal":{"name":"Oceanologica Acta","volume":"26 5","pages":"Pages 623-628"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00060-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"97642498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Variability of circulation features in the Gulf of Lion NW Mediterranean Sea. Importance of inertial currents","authors":"Anne A Petrenko","doi":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00038-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00038-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>ADCP data from two cruises, Moogli 2 (June 1998) and Moogli 3 (January 1999), show the variability of the circulation features in the Gulf of Lion, NW Mediterranean Sea. The objective of the present study is to determine whether the hydrodynamic features are due to local forcings or seasonal ones. During both cruises, the Mediterranean Northern Current (NC) is clearly detected along the </span>continental slope and intrudes on the eastern side of the shelf. East of the gulf, its flux is ~2 Sv both in June and January in opposition to previous literature results. Otherwise, the NC characteristics exhibit usual seasonal differences. During the summer, the NC is wider (35 km), shallower (~200 m), and weaker (maximum currents of 40–50 cm s</span>^–1) than during the winter (respectively, 28 km, 250–300 m, 70 cm s^–1<span>). Moreover the NC is tilted vertically during the winter, following the more pronounced cyclonic dome structure of that season. Its meanders are interpreted as due to baroclinic instabilities<span> propagating along the shelf break. Other circulation features are also season-specific. The summer stratification allows the development, after strong wind variations, of inertial currents with their characteristic two-layer baroclinic structure. In the top layer, the speed of the inertial oscillation can locally be as high as 200% the NC speed. Otherwise in the surface layer, inertial current is about 2/3 the NC. During the 1999 winter, dense water formations are observed both on the continental shelf and offshore. Other hydrodynamic features depend primarily on topography or wind forcing. Deep portions of the NC go up canyons. The continental shelf circulation is complex, and influenced by the wind stress curl. During Moogli 3, strong eastern counter-currents may be linked to the numerous intrusions of the NC on the shelf. During Moogli 2, tramontane conditions seem to favor the formation of a cyclonic structure on the western continental shelf.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":100980,"journal":{"name":"Oceanologica Acta","volume":"26 4","pages":"Pages 323-338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00038-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84501093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatial variability in oxygen and nutrient fluxes at the sediment-water interface on the continental shelf in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean)","authors":"Lionel Denis ,&nbsp;Christian Grenz","doi":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00017-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00017-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>The spatial variability of oxygen and dissolved nutrient exchanges across the sediment-water interface was studied on the continental shelf in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean Sea). Replicate </span>sediment cores<span> were sampled at nine stations (64–162 m depth) along two lines parallel to the coast during two cruises in March and June 1998. Sediment-water exchanges were measured using the core incubation technique. Surficial sediments<span>, bottom water and interstitial water characteristics were also described. Fluxes of oxygen (3.72–8.83 mmol m</span></span></span>^–2 d^–1), nitrate (0.026–0.283 mmol m^–2 d^–1), ammonium (–0.022 to 0.204 mmol m^–2 d^–1), nitrite (–0.034 to 0.002 mmol m^–2 d^–1), phosphate (–0.007 to 0.029 mmol m^–2 d^–1) and silicate (0.504–1.656 mmol m^–2 d^–1<span>) were generally quite low. This has to be related to the oligotrophy of the Mediterranean Sea. Fluxes showed a weak spatial variability, and a significant correlation could be established between oxygen fluxes and the organic carbon content of surficial sediments. A general increase in ammonium, nitrate and phosphate release was also observed towards the coast and the mouth of the Rhône River. Nitrite uptake and silicate release showed high variability between cruises, and the change in silicate fluxes depended mainly on the location on the eastern or western part of the continental shelf.</span></p><p>Over the whole continental shelf, calculated sediment mineralization rate represents 342 kt a^–1<span> of organic carbon. The annual release from the sediments approximates to 14.1 kt dissolved inorganic nitrogen<span>, 2.9 kt P, and 165 kt dissolved silica, which represent, respectively, an amount close to 5%, 7% and 28% of the nutrient requirements for primary production. When compared to nutrient inputs from the Rhône River, sediments appear to play a significant role in the biogeochemical cycles<span> of the Gulf of Lions system, mainly for inorganic phosphorus and dissolved silica.</span></span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":100980,"journal":{"name":"Oceanologica Acta","volume":"26 4","pages":"Pages 373-389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00017-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80635041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationship between sedimentary organic matter and benthic fauna within the Gulf of Lion: synthesis on the identification of new biochemical descriptors of sedimentary organic nutritional value","authors":"Antoine Grémare,&nbsp;Laurence Medernach,&nbsp;Francis DeBovee,&nbsp;Jean-Michel Amouroux,&nbsp;François Charles,&nbsp;Alain Dinet,&nbsp;Gilles Vetion,&nbsp;Philippe Albert,&nbsp;Jean-Charles Colomines","doi":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00018-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00018-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span><span>The abilities of several biochemical characteristics of sedimentary organic matter to describe quantitative changes in benthic fauna were assessed based on several surveys carried out within the Gulf of Lion during the last decade. Two sets of high frequency samplings were carried out both inshore and offshore, together with an assessment of seasonal variability along a depth gradient, and a synoptic assessment of mesoscale spatial variability. The considered biochemical parameters were: total organic matter, </span>organic carbon, nitrogen, total proteins, available proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, total and available amino acids. The considered faunal parameters were the abundance and the biomass of both meio- and </span>macrofauna. Our results contribute to unravel the relative importance of food </span>digestibility<span><span> and composition in controlling particulate organic matter nutritional value. Spectra of both total and available amino acids were almost constant irrespective of the seasons and/or the environments, which were studied during these surveys. This underlines the role of particulate organic matter digestibility relative to its ability to meet specific nutritional requirements in controlling benthic fauna. </span>Multivariate analysis used to relate biochemical and faunal parameters suggest that available amino acids and lipids are the best descriptors of food nutritional value. In contrast with carbohydrates, these two parameters are both associated with the most labile fraction of particulate organic matter. This result suggests that the use of the sum of proteins, carbohydrates and lipids as a proxy for labile organic matter is precluded at least in areas similar to the Gulf of Lion.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":100980,"journal":{"name":"Oceanologica Acta","volume":"26 4","pages":"Pages 391-406"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00018-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"108345413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Silicon cycle in the NW Mediterranean Sea: seasonal study of a coastal oligotrophic site","authors":"Karine Leblanc,&nbsp;Bernard Quéguiner,&nbsp;Nicole Garcia,&nbsp;Peggy Rimmelin,&nbsp;Patrick Raimbault","doi":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00035-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00035-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>A study of the biogeochemical cycle of silicon has been conducted in the Gulf of Lion (NW Mediterranean) from September 1999 to September 2000. Most of the year the study site was under the influence of the NW Mediterranean Current, characterized by oligotrophic conditions. A seasonal pattern of silicon stocks was found, showing an inverse annual distribution of </span>biogenic silica and lithogenic silica. Biogenic silica integrated stocks were higher during spring and summer (21.5 and 19.3 mmol m</span>^–2<span>) due to siliceous phytoplankton Si uptake and build-up of biomass. By contrast lithogenic silica integrated stocks were highest during the fall and winter (61.8 and 45.0 mmol m</span>^–2<span>), which may be explained by a higher degree of turbulence of the water column, inducing sediment resuspension. Phytoplankton counts showed that the relative contribution of diatoms to microphytoplankton at the chlorophyll </span><em>a</em> maximum averaged 51% during the study period. Si uptake rates, measured in situ from March to September 2000, were low (Σ <em>ρ</em>Si = 0.14–1.4 mmol Si m^–2 d^–1<span>) throughout the study period. Potential Si limitation of siliceous phytoplankton in the course of spring bloom development was evidenced both by Si enrichment kinetics, yielding relatively high </span><em>K</em>_S values (3.46 and 4.97 μM), and by nutrient distributions, exhibiting Si exhaustion over the entire water column by mid-April. The annual integrated Si production rate amounted to 0.14 mol Si m^–2 per year, one of the lowest rates reported to date, and the diatom contribution to annual carbon primary production was estimated to range between 24 and 36%. The silicon cycle at the NW Mediterranean site was similar to that observed in other oligotrophic open-ocean systems in terms of stocks, annual Si production rates, and the relative contribution of diatoms to phytoplanktonic primary production.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100980,"journal":{"name":"Oceanologica Acta","volume":"26 4","pages":"Pages 339-355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00035-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56209313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Modeling 3D Rhône river plume using a higher order advection scheme","authors":"Sandrine Arnoux-Chiavassa,&nbsp;Vincent Rey,&nbsp;Philippe Fraunié","doi":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00058-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00058-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Effects of discretization scheme on the numerical modeling of 3D Rhône River plume<span><span> dynamics are investigated. A higher order scheme of total variation diminishing (TVD) type is used to discretize advection terms of both momentum and scalar equations. It is shown that this scheme widely damps the numerical diffusion and improves the representation of the dynamical and density fronts bounding the flow. It enables to accurately investigate the effects of the </span>turbulent diffusion, which was previously masked by the numerical one. Numerical results are also compared to in situ data for two situations related to different wind conditions. For the case without wind stress, associated to supercritical values of the </span></span>Richardson number, optimized turbulent parameterization allows to recover the plume spreading and thickness, although local diffusion mechanisms are not precisely described. On the other hand, for the seaward wind case, associated to subcritical values of the Richardson number, numerical results and in situ data well agree on both the surface flow and the vertical density structure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100980,"journal":{"name":"Oceanologica Acta","volume":"26 4","pages":"Pages 299-309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00058-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56209427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nutrients and carbon budgets for the Gulf of Lion during the Moogli cruises","authors":"Xavier Durrieu de Madron ,&nbsp;Lionel Denis ,&nbsp;Frédérique Diaz ,&nbsp;N Garcia ,&nbsp;Cécile Guieu ,&nbsp;Christian Grenz ,&nbsp;Marie-Dominique Loÿe-Pilot ,&nbsp;Wolfgang Ludwig ,&nbsp;Thierry Moutin ,&nbsp;Patrick Raimbault ,&nbsp;Céline Ridame","doi":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00024-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00024-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Shelf-slope exchanges and budgets of organic and inorganic nutrients are calculated for the Gulf of Lion continental margin in the northwestern Mediterranean. Computations are based on data from three seasonal marine surveys performed in March 1998, June 1998 and January 1999 in the framework of the French Programme National d’Environnement Côtier. A Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone type box model is used to calculate the advective exchanges between the shelf and the adjacent open sea and to estimate the budgets of non-conservative elements (DIP, DIN, DOP, DON, DOC, POC, PON, POP). These budgets consider river discharges, urban sewage supply, </span>atmospheric deposition, and fluxes at the water-sediment and shelf-slope interfaces. Uncertainties on the fluxes and budgets are estimated to assess the robustness of the results with respect to the spatial variability of the system. Results indicate that shelf-slope exchanges by mixing predominate with respect to the major input terms (river discharge and sediment release). Budgets for inorganic nutrients, that show a strong concentration gradient between the shelf and the slope waters, are significantly different from zero and indicate an excess of these elements in the shelf water. For all surveys, these surpluses suggest (i) that the whole shelf system is autotrophic (1.6–4.3 × 10</span>³ mol C s^–1) and acts as a sink of CO₂, and (ii) that it is a site of net denitrification (119 mol N s^–1) and acts as a sink of N₂. Average shelf-slope fluxes of dissolved and particulate organic elements generally indicate an export to the open sea. However, the large uncertainty on these fluxes yields budgets for the shelf not significantly different from zero.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100980,"journal":{"name":"Oceanologica Acta","volume":"26 4","pages":"Pages 421-433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00024-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80293190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effects of a strong winter storm on physical and biological variables at a shelf site in the Mediterranean","authors":"Antoine Grémare ,&nbsp;Jean-Michel Amouroux ,&nbsp;Gustave Cauwet ,&nbsp;François Charles ,&nbsp;Claude Courties ,&nbsp;Francis De Bovée ,&nbsp;Alain Dinet ,&nbsp;Jean Luc Devenon ,&nbsp;Xavier Durrieu De Madron ,&nbsp;Béatrice Ferre ,&nbsp;Philippe Fraunie ,&nbsp;Fabien Joux ,&nbsp;François Lantoine ,&nbsp;Philippe Lebaron ,&nbsp;Jean-Jacques Naudin ,&nbsp;Albert Palanques ,&nbsp;Mireille Pujo-Pay ,&nbsp;Laurent Zudaire","doi":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00029-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00029-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A survey involving both permanent mooring and high frequency sampling was carried in the Bay of Banyuls-sur-Mer during the fall of 1999 to assess the effect of strong and unpredictable meteorological events on the functioning of a coastal Mediterranean ecosystem. A severe winter storm took place on 12 November, which generated waves with a significant height of 7 m and a sea surface rise of about 0.5 m. The near-bottom current speed at 24 m reached 30 cm s^–1<span>. This storm induced a significant increase in total suspended matter through resuspension<span><span><span><span> and then a subsequent increase in gross sedimentation rates. It also resulted in an increase of the proportion of refractory </span>particulate organic matter in the water column. It also tended to increase nutrient availability in the water column through resuspension and desorption processes. The kinetic of this increase differed among nutrients. Bacterial biomass and production were significantly enhanced by the storm. These effects were transitory and probably not due to resuspension alone. The distribution of </span>plant pigments<span> was modified at the immediate vicinity of the water-sediment interface due to differential resuspension and sedimentation but the storm had no effect on integrated phytoplanktonic biomass. Such a lack of response may be linked to low precipitations and/or light limitation. The storm resulted in a transitory increase of the abundance of fine particles at the water-sediment interface. These particles were coated with refractory organic matter. The storm induced a significant decrease of meiofauna abundance. The duration of the relaxation periods varied among parameters. It lasted 2 weeks for total suspended matter, surface sediment </span></span>granulometry and carbohydrate contents.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":100980,"journal":{"name":"Oceanologica Acta","volume":"26 4","pages":"Pages 407-419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00029-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77957858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Research activities in the Gulf of Lion (NW Mediterranean) within the 1997–2001 PNEC project","authors":"Patrick Raimbault ,&nbsp;Xavier Durrieu de Madron","doi":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00030-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00030-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The French national program on the coastal environment Programme National Environnement Côtier (PNEC) represented during the last decade a major support for the pluridisciplinary oceanographic research in the Gulf of Lion. During the second phase of the program, that lasted from 1997 to 2001, the main objective for this worksite was to establish an annual budget of carbon and associated biogenic elements to characterise the role of this region as source and the sink of elements. This introductory paper provides an overview of the research framework and recapitulates the major scientific outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100980,"journal":{"name":"Oceanologica Acta","volume":"26 4","pages":"Pages 291-298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00030-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82193772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}