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This article should be disambiguated. F-ratio in optics can also mean the ratio of the focal length of a telescope to its aperture. And there's also an F-ratio distribution in statistics.
Jason Quinn17:22, 25 September 2006 (UTC)reply
Agreed. Do you want to write the page, or shall I? I started this one but only found out about the other f-ratios later. I don't think they have pages yet - I certainly couldn't find any. Cheers, --
Plumbago17:29, 25 September 2006 (UTC)reply
Done. All you do is add a {{otheruses}} link to the original page; this creates a link on that page to a disambiguation page; you then edit this to point to the other definitions. Have a look at the page here and its disambiguation link. Cheers, --
Plumbago08:00, 26 September 2006 (UTC)reply
Biological significance
This was a very nice job. I added a little bit of text describing the distinction between the export and microbial loops and referencing the papers of Laws et al. (2000) and Dunne et al. (2005).
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Agnana20:00, 13 November 2006 (UTC)reply
sediment traps
Dear authors of this page. Congratulations for your efforts. I suggest to add something to the 'overview' section. Beyond the logistic problems involved in deploying sediment traps (as the texts explains), sediment traps are known to experience a number of bias: currents may affect the efficiency of the collection process; zooplantkon may enter actively the traps biasing the measurment of the gravitative flux; .. many things may happen. And even if you are able to limit the biases and believe that the trap is measuring relaibly the settling flux of particles, then still you have to consider that such a flux is not strictly vertical but three-dimensional. Sediment traps are at present the best available tools to estimate the downward flux of organic matter derived from photsynthesis in the upper ocean...but they present still many drawbacks. If you need references try for example:
Thomas, S., and P.V.Ridd (2004). Review of methods to measure short time scale sediment accumulation. Marine Geology. 207, 95-114.
Buesseler, K.O.; et al. (2007). "An assessment of the use of sediment traps for estimating upper ocean particle fluxes". J. Mar. Res. 65: 345–416. ISSN 0022-2402.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jmr/jmr/2007/00000065/00000003/art00002.
This is something of a fair point (and largely my fault in this article), though it would be useful if you could point to particular deficiencies. That'll help editors make it clearer to the general reader. Thanks for dropping by! Cheers, --
PLUMBAGO11:21, 20 October 2014 (UTC)reply