Biogeosciences www.biogeosciences.net 1726-4170 1726-4189 6 5 2009 10.5194/bg-6-923-2009 http://www.biogeosciences.net/6/923/2009/ http://www.biogeosciences.net/6/923/2009/bg-6-923-2009.html http://www.biogeosciences.net/6/923/2009/bg-6-923-2009.pdf 923 935 2009-05-28 Stoichiometries of remineralisation and denitrification in global biogeochemical ocean models A. Paulmier apaulmier@ifm-geomar.de I. Kriest A. Oschlies Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences IFM-GEOMAR, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany currently at: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstr. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany Since the seminal paper of Redfield (1934), constant stoichiometric elemental ratios linking biotic carbon and nutrient fluxes are often assumed in marine biogeochemistry, and especially in coupled biogeochemical circulation models, to couple the global oxygen, carbon and nutrient cycles. 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