Low dissolved Fe and the absence of diatom blooms in remote Pacific waters of the Southern Ocean

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 1-34

  De Baar, Hein J W ^a,b   De Jong, Jeroen T M ^a   Nolting, Rob F ^a   Timmermans, Klaas R ^a   Van Leeuwe, Maria A ^a,b   Bathmann, U ^c   Rutgers Van Der Loeff, Michiel ^c   Sildam, Jüri ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diatom; Dissolved Fe; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; DIATOM; IRON; NUTRIENT LIMITATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0032811905     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4203(99)00022-5     Document Type: Article

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