The role of organic ligands in iron cycling and primary productivity in the Antarctic Peninsula: A modeling study

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 90, Issue , 2013, Pages 112-133

  Jiang, Mingshun ^a   Barbeau, Katherine A ^b   Selph, Karen E ^c   Measures, Christopher I ^c   Buck, Kristen N ^d   Azam, Farooq ^b   Greg Mitchell, B ^b   Zhou, Meng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Bacteria; Bio complexation; Carbon; Iron; Model; Organic ligands; Photo reduction; Phytoplankton; Primary productivity; Scavenging; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; BIO-COMPLEXATION; ORGANIC LIGANDS; PHOTO-REDUCTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACTERIA; CARBON; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; IRON; LIGANDS; MODELS; NUTRIENTS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; SCAVENGING; SHIPS;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIUM; CALIBRATION; COLLOID; COMPLEXATION; EUPHOTIC ZONE; LIGAND; MICROBIAL LOOP; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESIDENCE TIME;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84878014802     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.01.029     Document Type: Article

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