Saccharides enhance iron bioavailability to southern ocean phytoplankton

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1076-1081

  Hassler, Christel S ^a,b,c   Schoemann, Véronique ^d,e   Nichols, Carol Mancuso ^b   Butler, Edward C V ^a,b   Boyd, Philip W ^f  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Carbohydrates; Exopolymeric substances; Organic matter; Plankton; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; GLUCURONIC ACID; IRON; MONOSACCHARIDE; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOTA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIATOM; EUKARYOTE; HAPTOPHYTA; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOLUBILITY;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; DIATOMS; GLUCURONIC ACID; IRON; LIGANDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONOSACCHARIDES; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 79551615216     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010963108     Document Type: Article

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