The seasonal smorgasbord of the seas
Martin, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1202-8612. 2012 The seasonal smorgasbord of the seas. Science, 337 (6090). 46-47. 10.1126/science.1223881
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The spring bloom of phytoplankton—an annual population explosion that propagates poleward across much of the open ocean and spills across the continental shelves—is a seasonal bounty for the marine ecosystem. As it wanes, its annual legacy is a flux of carbon out of the atmosphere as the organic material, containing newly fixed carbon, sinks. On page 54 of this issue, Mahadevan et al. (1) suggest that the bloom can be triggered by instabilities in surface currents that trap phytoplankton near the sunlit surface. In another study, Teeling et al. (2) recently suggested that the bloom itself may help to explain the “paradox of the plankton” (3); how can a seemingly homogeneous ocean sustain thousands of species?
Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1126/science.1223881 |
Programmes: | NOC Programmes > Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems NOC Programmes |
ISSN: | 0036-8075 |
Date made live: | 20 Jul 2012 12:42 +0 (UTC) |
URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/441380 |
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