• DOI:10.1038/331341A0
Corpus ID: 4325562

Iron deficiency limits phytoplankton growth in the north-east Pacific subarctic

@article{Martin1988IronDL,
  title={Iron deficiency limits phytoplankton growth in the north-east Pacific subarctic},
  author={J. Martin and S. Fitzwater},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1988},
  volume={331},
  pages={341-343}
}

J. Martin, S. Fitzwater

Published 1988

Environmental Science

Nature

An interesting oceanographic problem concerns the excess major plant nutrients (PO4, NO3, SiO3) occurring in offshore surface waters of the Antarctic1–3 and north-east Pacific subarctic Oceans4. In a previous study5, we presented indirect evidence suggesting that inadequate Fe input was responsible for this limitation of growth; recently we had the opportunity to seek direct evidence for this hypothesis in the north-east Pacific subarctic. We report here that the addition of nmol amounts of… CONTINUE READING

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