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Enhanced Southern Ocean marine productivity due to fertilization by giant icebergs
- Source :
- Nature Geoscience. 9:219-221
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- Nutrient input from icebergs can fertilize productivity in the ocean. Ten years of satellite measurements reveal that giant icebergs could be responsible for up to 20% of carbon export to depth in the Southern Ocean.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Marine biology
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Biogeochemistry
01 natural sciences
Iceberg
Oceanography
Nutrient
Human fertilization
Productivity (ecology)
13. Climate action
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
14. Life underwater
Marine productivity
Geology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17520908 and 17520894
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature Geoscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........cc46dc9fc07a691d17f47b255a7ae4b9
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2633