Abstract
The sea contains a substantial amount of carbon compared to that present in the atmosphere* or in terrestrial organisms (Table 13-1); only rock deposits contain more carbon, but these resources are not involved in the carbon cycle at ecologically meaningful time scales.
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Valiela, I. (1995). The Carbon Cycle: Production and Transformations of Organic Matter. In: Marine Ecological Processes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4125-4_13
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