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Biodiversity: an essential partner in development
Brussels, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Friday 4 May 2007
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downwelling
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a process by which surface waters increase in density and sink. Strong downwelling occurs mainly off Greenland and Antarctica.
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