No iron fertilization in the equatorial Pacific Ocean during the last ice age

Nature

Volumn 529, Issue 7587, 2016, Pages 519-522

  Costa, K M ^a,b   McManus, J F ^a,b   Anderson, R F ^a,b   Ren, H ^c   Sigman, D M ^d   Winckler, G ^a,b   Fleisher, M Q ^a   Marcantonio, F ^e   Ravelo, A C ^f  

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

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; IRON; NITRATE; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHATE; PROTACTINIUM; THORIUM 230;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DUST; HOLOCENE; IRON; LAST GLACIAL; NITRATE; NUTRIENT USE; PHOSPHATE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SUBANTARCTIC REGION;

ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOTURBATION; DUST; FERTILIZATION; FORAMINIFER; GLACIAL PERIOD; HOLOCENE; ICE AGE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84964301215     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16453     Document Type: Article

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