The concordant variation between chemical elements and biological activity in seawater is reviewed in this paper. The flux of the biogenic components in seawater is highly linked up with the flux of the lithogenic materials or vise versa. indicating t...
The concordant variation between chemical elements and biological activity in seawater is reviewed in this paper. The flux of the biogenic components in seawater is highly linked up with the flux of the lithogenic materials or vise versa. indicating that suspended clays. fine fractions and chemical elements are efficiently scavenged through the water column by sinking organic aggregates.
Most of chemical elements in seawater are formed as complexation. suggesting that the biological activity in seawater plays an important role in becoming a complex form of chemical elements. Therefore, it is necessary to study the form of chemical elements and their behavior with respect to biological activity. Understanding the linkage between the biological activity and the behavior of chemical elements in seawater is the first step to explore oceanic environmental change including material cycles in sea water.