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Ocean Biogeochemistry

The Role of the Ocean Carbon Cycle in Global Change

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Editors:
  1. Michael J. R. Fasham

    1. Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK

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  • Overall representation of the role of the ocean in the global carbon cycle
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Global Change - The IGBP Series (GLOBALCHANGE)

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Oceans account for 50% of the anthropogenic CO2 released into the atmosphere. During the past 15 years an international programme, the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), has been studying the ocean carbon cycle to quantify and model the biological and physical processes whereby CO2 is pumped from the ocean's surface to the depths of the ocean, where it can remain for hundreds of years. This project is one of the largest multi-disciplinary studies of the oceans ever carried out and this book synthesises the results. It covers all aspects of the topic ranging from air-sea exchange with CO2, the role of physical mixing, the uptake of CO2 by marine algae, the fluxes of carbon and nitrogen through the marine food chain to the subsequent export of carbon to the depths of the ocean. Special emphasis is laid on predicting future climatic change.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael J. R. Fasham, Hugh W. Ducklow
    Pages 1-2

  3. Biogeochemical Provinces: Towards a JGOFS Synthesis

    • Hugh W. Ducklow
    Pages 3-17

  4. Physical Transport of Nutrients and the Maintenance of Biological Production

    • Richard G. Williams, Michael J. Follows
    Pages 19-51

  5. Continental Margin Exchanges

    • Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Kon-Kee Liu, Robie Macdonald
    Pages 53-97

  6. Phytoplankton and Their Role in Primary, New, and Export Production

    • Paul G. Falkowski, Edward A. Laws, Richard T. Barber, James W. Murray
    Pages 99-121

  7. Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in the Global Ocean

    • Andrew J. Watson, James C. Orr
    Pages 123-143

  8. Water Column Biogeochemistry below the Euphotic Zone

    • Paul Tréguer, Louis Legendre, Richard T. Rivkin, Olivier Ragueneau, Nicolas Dittert
    Pages 145-156

  9. The Impact of Climate Change and Feedback Processes on the Ocean Carbon Cycle

    • Philip W. Boyd, Scott C. Doney
    Pages 157-193

  10. Benthic Processes and the Burial of Carbon

    • Karin Lochte, Robert Anderson, Roger Francois, Richard A. Jahnke, Graham Shimmield, Alexander Vetrov
    Pages 195-216

  11. Global Ocean Carbon Cycle Modeling

    • Scott C. Doney, Keith Lindsay, J. Keith Moore
    Pages 217-238

  12. Temporal Studies of Biogeochemical Processes Determined from Ocean Time-Series Observations During the JGOFS Era

    • David M. Karl, Nicholas R. Bates, Steven Emerson, Paul J. Harrison, Catherine Jeandel, Octavio Llinâs et al.
    Pages 239-267

  13. JGOFS: a Retrospective View

    • Michael J. R. Fasham
    Pages 269-277

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 279-297
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"The volume consistently conveys both the importance of the ocean in the global carbon cycle and the uncertainty of the oceanic response to global change. … The stated objective of The IGBP Series, to present key results of the JGOFS project, is accomplished. … The design of the book is very attractive, the type clear, and the figure size appropriate. … this volume provides a valuable state of the art of ocean biogeochemistry for those interested in the carbon cycle or climate change." (Mary-Elena Carr, Ecology, Vol. 85 (7), 2004)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK

    Michael J. R. Fasham

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ocean Biogeochemistry

  • Book Subtitle: The Role of the Ocean Carbon Cycle in Global Change

  • Editors: Michael J. R. Fasham

  • Series Title: Global Change - The IGBP Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55844-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-42398-0Published: 08 April 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-62691-3Published: 17 August 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55844-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1619-2435

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 301

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Nature Conservation, Oceanography

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