Iron limitation across chlorophyll gradients in the southern Drake Passage: Phytoplankton responses to iron addition and photosynthetic indicators of iron stress

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2540-2554

  Hopkinson, Brian M ^a   Mitchell, B Greg ^b   Reynolds, Rick A ^b   Wang, Haili ^b   Selph, Karen E ^c   Measures, Christopher I ^c   Hewes, Christopher D ^d   Holm Hansen, Osmund ^d   Barbeau, Katherine A ^a  

^a GEOSCIENCES RESEARCH DIVISION   (United States)

^b INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; GROWTH RATE; IRON; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHYTOPLANKTON; WATER MASS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

ALGAE;

EID: 36749053992     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.6.2540     Document Type: Article

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