Potential phytoplankton responses to iron and stratification changes in the Southern Ocean based on a flexible-composition phytoplankton model

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Mongin, Mathieu ^a   Nelson, David M ^b,c   Pondaven, Philippe ^c   Tréguer, Paul ^c  

^a ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; IRON; MIXING; NUTRIENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GRAZING PRESSURE; IRON; LIGHT EFFECT; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STRATIFICATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 40749116044     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GB002972     Document Type: Article

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