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spellingShingle Woulds, Clare, Bell, James B., Glover, Adrian G., Bouillon, Steven, Brown, Louise S., Biogeosciences, Benthic carbon fixation and cycling in diffuse hydrothermal and background sediments in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
title Benthic carbon fixation and cycling in diffuse hydrothermal and background sediments in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica
title_full Benthic carbon fixation and cycling in diffuse hydrothermal and background sediments in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica
title_fullStr Benthic carbon fixation and cycling in diffuse hydrothermal and background sediments in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica
title_full_unstemmed Benthic carbon fixation and cycling in diffuse hydrothermal and background sediments in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica
title_short Benthic carbon fixation and cycling in diffuse hydrothermal and background sediments in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica
title_sort benthic carbon fixation and cycling in diffuse hydrothermal and background sediments in the bransfield strait, antarctica
title_unstemmed Benthic carbon fixation and cycling in diffuse hydrothermal and background sediments in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica
topic Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
url http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1-2020