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Bulk Chemical Aspects of Dissolved Organic Matter in Seawater Review: The Recent Findings and Unsolved Problems

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Dynamics and Characterization of Marine Organic Matter

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It is widely known that most dissolved organic matter (DOM) in seawater are not identified by traditional biochemical methods although their total standing stock in the seawater column is approximately 10 times larger than the particulate organic fraction including most marine organisms. Two features of seawater DOM, i.e. the size of the pool is very big but the nature is little known, have been repeatedly pointed out over the past four decades at least. We can learn the details of this matter from many previous syntheses based on past results (Duursma, 1965; Williams, 1971, 1975; Mopper and Degens, 1979; Dawson and Liebzeit, 1981; Thurman, 1984; Williams and Druffel, 1988; Hedges, 1992).

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Ogawa, H. (2000). Bulk Chemical Aspects of Dissolved Organic Matter in Seawater Review: The Recent Findings and Unsolved Problems. In: Handa, N., Tanoue, E., Hama, T. (eds) Dynamics and Characterization of Marine Organic Matter. Ocean Sciences Research (OSR), vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1319-1_16

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