Shining a Light on Silica Production in the Oceans: Using a Fluorescent Tracer to Measure Silica Deposition in Marine Diatoms
This thesis presents improvements to a method for measuring the production of biogenic silica (bSiO2) by diatoms, a group of microscopic algae with siliceous cell walls (frustules) that dominate the marine cycling of silicon (Si) and account for a significant proportion of global marine primary prod...
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| Language: | English en |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6602 |