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Nature 389, 905-906 (30 October 1997) | doi:10.1038/39993

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The ocean's productive deserts

Scott C. Doney1

The loss of photosynthetically generated carbon from the ocean's surface waters is a central mechanism in the global carbon cycle. Analyses of the results from three independent techniques give us the best estimate yet of the scale of this 'export' process.

  1. Scott C. Doney is at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000, USA.
    e-mail: Email: doney@ucar.edu