Diatom resting spore ecology drives enhanced carbon export from a naturally iron-fertilized bloom in the Southern Ocean

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Salter, Ian ^a,b   Kemp, Alan E S ^a   Moore, C Mark ^a   Lampitt, Richard S ^a   Wolff, George A ^c   Holtvoeth, Jens ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratoire d Océanographie Microbienne   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL FLUXES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; CARBON EXPORT; CARBON FLUXES; CONTROL AREA; CONTROL SITES; DEEP OCEAN SEDIMENTS; EXPORT FLUX; FUTURE CLIMATE; HIGH NUTRIENT LOW CHLOROPHYLLS; NATURAL IRON; NATURAL LABORATORIES; OPEN OCEAN; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; SINKING PARTICLES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE OCEAN; VIABLE CELLS;

ALGAE CONTROL; AMINO ACIDS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BLOOMS (METAL); CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; STOICHIOMETRY;

IRON;

ADVECTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GROWTH RATE; IRON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENT TRAP; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPORE;

CROZET ISLANDS; FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; EUCAMPIA; EUCAMPIA ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84856744495     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003977     Document Type: Article

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