Antarctic Zone nutrient conditions during the last two glacial cycles

Paleoceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 845-862

  Studer, Anja S ^a,b   Sigman, Daniel M ^a   Martínez García, Alfredo ^b   Benz, Verena ^c   Winckler, Gisela ^d,e   Kuhn, Gerhard ^c   Esper, Oliver ^c   Lamy, Frank ^c   Jaccard, Samuel L ^f   Wacker, Lukas ^g   Oleynik, Sergey ^a   Gersonde, Rainer ^c   Haug, Gerald H ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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

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

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antarctic Zone; diatom bound nitrogen isotopes; iron limitation; nitrate seasonality; nutrient utilization

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DIATOM; IRON; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT CORE; SURFACE WATER;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84939271775     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002745     Document Type: Article

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