In the last decade, the study of marine dissolved organic matter has grown enormously. It is a full-time job just keeping up with the myriad developments in extraction techniques, chemical characterizations, isotopic composition, optical properties, and all the implications for marine systems stemming from these studies. Hence, the second edition of Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter, edited by Dennis Hansell and Craig Carlson, is timely.

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