Increasing subtropical north Pacific Ocean nitrogen fixation since the Little Ice Age

Nature

Volumn 505, Issue 7481, 2014, Pages 78-81

  Sherwood, Owen A ^a,c   Guilderson, Thomas P ^a,b   Batista, Fabian C ^a   Schiff, John T ^a   McCarthy, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NITROGEN; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SEA WATER;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEEP SEA; GLOBAL WARMING; GYRE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LITTLE ICE AGE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANKTON; PROKARYOTE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; DEEP SEA; DENITRIFICATION; GLACIAL MASS BALANCE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HOLOCENE; KULAMANAMANA HAUMEAAE; LITTLE ICE AGE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; AQUATIC SPECIES; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; HISTORY; ICE COVER; METABOLISM; PLANKTON; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TIME; TROPIC CLIMATE; UNITED STATES;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANTHOZOA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; HAWAII; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; ICE COVER; NITRATES; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLANKTON; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84892371042     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12784     Document Type: Article

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