Perspectives and Regional Syntheses -- Biogeochemistry of Continental Margins in a Global Context -- Eastern Boundary Current Systems -- Western Boundary Currents -- Indian Ocean Margins -- Subpolar Margins -- Polar Margins -- Marginal Seas -- Tropical Margins -- Arising Issues and New Approaches -- Examining Human Impacts on Global Biogeochemical Cycling Via the Coastal Zone and Ocean Margins -- Biogeochemical Transformations of Silicon Along the Land -- Ocean Continuum and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle1 -- Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) and Associated Nutrient Fluxes to the Coastal Ocean -- Coupled Circulation/Biogeochemical Models to Estimate Carbon Flux1 -- Cross-Boundary Fluxes and Global Synthesis -- Cross-Boundary Exchanges of Carbon and Nitrogen in Continental Margins1 -- Carbon -- Nitrogen -- Phosphorus Fluxes in the Coastal Zone: The LOICZ Approach to Global Assessment -- Sediment and Carbon Accumulation on Continental Shelves1 -- Global Synthesis1
Summary
Providing the best estimates of carbon and nutrient fluxes in seven types of continental margins, this book also contains a global synthesis for carbon and nutrient fluxes between continental margins, the atmosphere and ocean; and between land and ocean
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-720) and index