Reconciling diatom productivity and iron flux in the southern ocean

Iron plays an important role in the regulation of biological productivity and the carbon cycle of the Southern Ocean. Recently, synchrotron X-ray spectromicroscopy revealed that molar iron to silicon (Fe:Si) ratios in living diatom samples collected from surface waters and ice in the coastal Antarct...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valett, Jacqueline Grace
Other Authors: Ito, Takamitsu
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53608