Iron-limitation and high light stress on phytoplankton populations from the Australian Sub-Antarctic Zone (SAZ)

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 2200-2211

  Petrou, Katherina ^a   Hassler, Christel S ^b   Doblin, Martina A ^a   Shelly, Kirsten ^c   Schoemann, Véronique ^d   van den Enden, Rick ^e   Wright, Simon ^e   Ralph, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^e AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Iron; Light stress; Phytoplankton; Southern Ocean; Xanthophyll cycling

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; DISSOLVED IRON; ENERGY DEPENDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUTURE CLIMATE; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH NUTRIENT LOW CHLOROPHYLLS; IN-SITU; IRON ENRICHMENT; IRON-LIMITATION; LIGHT ENERGY; LIGHT STRESS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MIXED LAYER; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OCEAN STRATIFICATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL EFFICIENCY; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH; SIDEROPHORES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VERTICAL MIXING; XANTHOPHYLL CYCLING;

ALGAE CONTROL; CHLOROPHYLL; NUTRIENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION STATISTICS; SILICATES; SURFACE WATERS;

IRON;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CHLOROPHYLL; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; IRON; IRRADIANCE; MIXED LAYER; NITRATE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; SIDEROPHORE; STRATIFICATION; SUBANTARCTIC REGION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATER; VERTICAL MIXING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 80052779154     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.05.020     Document Type: Article

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