Thick-shelled, grazer-protected diatoms decouple ocean carbon and silicon cycles in the iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current

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

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 20633-20638

  Assmy, Philipp ^a,b   Smetacek, Victor ^b,c   Montresor, Marina ^d   Klaas, Christine ^b   Henjes, Joachim ^b   Strass, Volker H ^b   Arrieta, Jesús M ^e,f   Bathmann, Ulrich ^b,g   Berg, Gry M ^h   Breitbarth, Eike ⁱ   Cisewski, Boris ^b,j   Friedrichs, Lars ^b   Fuchs, Nike ^b   Herndl, Gerhard J ^e,k   Jansen, Sandra ^b   Krägefsky, Sören ^b   Latasa, Mikel ^l,m   Peeken, Ilka ^b,n   Röttgers, Rüdiger ^o   Scharek, Renate ^l,m   Schüller, Susanne E ^p   Steigenberger, Sebastian ^b,q   Webb, Adrian ^r   Wolf Gladrow, Dieter ^b   more..

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^d STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^j INSTITUT FÜR SEEFISCHEREI   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^l INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^m INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^o INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^p UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^q NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

more..

Author keywords

Evolutionary arms race; Geo engineering; Top down control

Indexed keywords

CARBON; IRON; SILICATE; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; COPEPOD; DIATOM; ECOLOGY; GRAZER; GRAZING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM FORMS; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84890812525     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309345110     Document Type: Article

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