The working group on coupled biogeochemical cycling and controlling factors dealt with questions regarding the role of plankton diversity, how ocean biogeochemistry will respond to global changes on decadal to centennial time scales, the key biogeochemical links between the ocean, atmosphere, and climate, and the role of estuaries, shelves, and marginal seas in the capturing, transformation, and exchange of terrestrial and open - marine material. (sciencemag.org)
«The observed trends may be extrapolated to the coastal seas of the North American Atlantic Ocean and the North, Baltic and Mediterranean Seas, which have received ever - increasing amounts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrate deposition and river - borne nitrate, comparable to those absorbed by coastal and marginal seas of the northwestern Pacific Ocean.» (treehugger.com)
We also review the roles of other marginal seas with no active overturning circulation systems in absorbing and storing anthropogenic CO2. (pubs.rsc.org)