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Muller-Karger et al. 2005

Muller-Karger, F.E., Varela, R., Thunell, R., Luerssen, R., Hu, C. and Walsh, J.J. (2005). The importance of continental margins in the global carbon cycle. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2004GL021346. issn: 0094-8276.

Approximately half of the world's net annual photosynthesis occurs in the oceans (~48 Pg C y-1). Areas bordering continents (bottom 40% of the carbon sequestration in the ocean. These regions must be accounted for in realistic models of the global carbon cycle and its linkages to climate change.

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Keywords
Global Change, Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling (0412, 0414, 0793, 4805, 4912), Global Change, Remote sensing, Oceanography, General, Continental shelf and slope processes, Oceanography, Biological and Chemical, Nutrients and nutrient cycling (0470, 1050), Geochemistry, Marine geochemistry (4835, 4845, 4850)

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Geophysical Research Letters
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