Strong responses of Southern Ocean phytoplankton communities to volcanic ash

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2851-2857

  Browning, T J ^a   Bouman, H A ^a   Henderson, G M ^a   Mather, T A ^a   Pyle, D M ^a   Schlosser, C ^b,c   Woodward, E M S ^d   Moore, C M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

colimitation; iron fertilization; manganese; phytoplankton; Southern Ocean; volcanic ash

Indexed keywords

BOTTLES; EXPERIMENTS; IRON; MANGANESE; OCEANOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

CO-LIMITATION; ENRICHMENT EXPERIMENTS; IRON FERTILIZATION; MANGANESE CONCENTRATION; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; SOUTHERN OCEAN; VOLCANIC ASH;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

BASALT; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISSOLVED MATTER; ENRICHMENT; IRON; MANGANESE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PHYTOPLANKTON; RHYOLITE; VOLCANIC ASH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84899034226     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059364     Document Type: Article

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