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New
discoveries and surprises
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Net production and export of DOC
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Importance of ballasting for
sedimentation flux
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Changes
in conceptual understanding
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Importance of other new nutrients (iron,
silica, N2)
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Iron-Grazer interactions
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Roles of large organisms as exporters
(not that new, really)
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Patchy, pulsed character of export
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Advances/refinements
in technique
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DOC analysis
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Thorium-234
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New
and improved estimates of rates and fluxes
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Global total and new production (decreased
uncertainty?)
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Regional carbon budgets
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Vast increase in obs of grazing and
bacterial rates
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