Biological response to millennial variability of dust and nutrient supply in the Subantarctic South Atlantic Ocean

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2019, 2014, Pages

  Anderson, Robert F ^a,b   Barker, Stephen ^c   Fleisher, Martin ^a   Gersonde, Rainer ^d   Goldstein, Steven L ^a,b   Kuhn, Gerhard ^d   Mortyn, P Graham ^e   Pahnke, Katharina ^f   Sachs, Julian P ^g  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b Cardiff University ^*  (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

^e INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological productivity; Dust; Iron; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

DUST; ECOLOGY; IRON; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRODUCTIVITY;

ANTARCTIC POLAR FRONTS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LITHOGENIC MATERIAL; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; NUTRIENT UTILIZATION; PRINCIPAL FACTORS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

NUTRIENTS;

IRON; SEA WATER;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; CHEMISTRY; DUST; FOOD; METABOLISM; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TIME;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; DUST; IRON; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DUST; FOOD; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84903554975     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0054     Document Type: Article

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