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Nature 398, 105-107 (11 March 1999) | doi:10.1038/18111

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Carbon cycling:  The mysterious missing sink

David W. Schindler1

I can remember discussing the implications of early data1 on atmospheric CO2 almost 30 years ago. Geochemists were confident that uptake of carbon at the ocean's surface could explain the imbalance between carbon released by man's activities (then considered to be almost entirely the burning of fossil fuels) and measured concentrations in the atmosphere.

  1. David W. Schindler is in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada.
    e-mail: Email: d.schindler@ualberta.ca