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Acid rain, 162-163, 167, 173, 181, 376 



effects on soil, 180-181 



in Scandinavia, 168 

 Advection-diffusion model, 14-18 

 Algae 



14 C uptake of, in oceans, 212 



production of, in estuaries, 229-230 

 Algal-cell carbon in freshwater, 25 3-254 



replacement times, 255 

 Alkalinity of the ocean, 38-39 

 Amundsen— Scott station, 53 

 Animal biomass, 281, 292-294 

 Antarctic Ocean, ' 4 C in, 11 

 Antarctic region, C0 2 exchange in, 8 

 Aragonite in the ocean, solubility of, 191 

 Arctic region, warming and cooling of, 28 

 Assimilation efficiencies, 293 

 Atlantic Ocean 



CaC0 3 in, 11 



14 C in, 11-12 



COin, 137 

 Atmosphere 



temperature decrease in, 31 



trace gases in, 371-372 

 Autotrophs in a forest, 346-347, 35 3-354 



aboveground standing crop, 347-348 



belowground standing crop, 348 



respiration of, 360 



Bacteria 



in food web, 210 



in forest litter, 35 3 



in oceans, 210, 212, 216, 217 



as source of H 2 S, 174-176 

 Barnstable marsh, 233-234 

 Bathypelagic fauna, 212 

 Benthic fauna, 214 

 Bicarbonate 



14 C activity of, 12-13 



in freshwater, assimilation of, 244 

 Biomass 



animal, 281, 292-294 



autotrophic, in forest, 346-347 



of ecosystem types, 282-283 



effects of forest harvest on, 300-301 



effects of man on world, 295-297, 379 



forest, 345 



heterotrophic, in forest, 360 



land plant, 287 



world, 281, 295-296 

 Biomass-accumulation ratio, 286-287 

 Biosphere 



defined, 1 



size of, 2 



steady state of, 294 

 Biotic transport in oceans, ' 4 C, 18 

 Brookhaven oak— pine forest, 361 



C0 2 increase in, 344 



C0 2 uptake in, 356 



Calcareous sediment, distribution in oceans, 



202 

 Calcite in oceans 

 dissolution of, 192-194 

 equilibrium of, 202 

 movement of, 191 

 solubility of, 191-192 

 Calcium carbonate 

 in freshwater, 243 

 in oceans, 35 

 Atlantic, 11 

 1 3 C/ 12 C ratio in, 41 

 Caribbean Sea, 43-45 

 Pacific, 11, 17 



rate of accumulation of, 40-41 , 43 

 sediments, 34, 37, 40-41, 43-44, 46, 

 191 

 Carbon 

 atmospheric sinks for, 374 

 cosmic sources of, 3 

 cycle, 34 

 flux rates in, 370 

 global model for, 382 

 pools in, 368 



recommendations for research on, 380- 

 381 

 in estuaries 

 budget, 236-237 



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