Dimethylsulfide biogeochemical cycle

Apart from CO2, CH4, and CO there are many gases containing carbon present in the atmosphere, terpenes, isoprenes, various compovmds of petrochemical origin and others. We will not discuss them further, although some, like dimethylsulfide (DMS, (CH3)2S), are of great importance in the biogeochemical cycles of other elements. The total amount of atmospheric carbon in forms other than the three discussed is estimated at 0.05 Pg C (Freyer, 1979). 

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