Average concentration of dissolved organic compounds in sea water

Range Table - link μg C/liter
Organism Biosphere
Reference Konings and Veldkamp, Energy transduction and solute transport mechanisms in relation to environments occupied by microorganisms. In Slater, Whittenbury and Wimpenny, eds. Microbes in their natural environments, pp.153-186. Cambridge University press, 1983. p.155 table 1
Comments The total concentration of free sugars varied between 0.015µM (Sargasso sea) and 2µM in near shore Baltic sea water above the sediment-water interface (p.155 2nd paragraph).
Entered by Uri M
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