The decline and fate of an iron-induced subarctic phytoplankton bloom

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 428; no. 6982; pp. 549 - 553
• Main Authors: Boyd, Philip W., Law, Cliff S., Wong, C.S., Nojiri, Yukihiro, Tsuda, Atsushi, Levasseur, Maurice, Takeda, Shigenobu, Rivkin, Richard, Harrison, Paul J., Strzepek, Robert, Gower, Jim, McKay, R. Mike, Abraham, Edward, Arychuk, Mike, Barwell-Clarke, Janet, Crawford, William, Crawford, David, Hale, Michelle, Harada, Koh, Johnson, Keith, Kiyosawa, Hiroshi, Kudo, Isao, Marchetti, Adrian, Miller, William, Needoba, Joe, Nishioka, Jun, Ogawa, Hiroshi, Page, John, Robert, Marie, Saito, Hiroaki, Sastri, Akash, Sherry, Nelson, Soutar, Tim, Sutherland, Nes, Taira, Yosuke, Whitney, Frank, Wong, Shau-King Emmy, Yoshimura, Takeshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.04.2004; Nature Publishing; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Alaska; algal blooms; Analysis; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Applied ecology; Bacillariophyceae; biogeochemistry; Biological and medical sciences; Carbon; Carbon - metabolism; Carbon sequestration; Cold Climate; Diatoms - growth & development; Diatoms - physiology; Ecotoxicology, biological effects of pollution; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Geoengineering; Humanities and Social Sciences; Iron; Iron - analysis; Iron - metabolism; letter; Marine; Marine and brackish environment; multidisciplinary; nutrient availability; Oceans; Oceans and Seas; organic compounds; Pacific Ocean; Particulate organic carbon; Phytoplankton; Phytoplankton - growth & development; Phytoplankton - physiology; Plankton; population dynamics; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Seawater - microbiology; Silica; Silicic Acid; Silicon Dioxide; Thermocline; Time Factors; Pacific Ocean; Gulf of Alaska; North Pacific; Alaska; INE, USA, Alaska, Alaska Gulf; USA, Alaska; Nutrition; Silicic acid; Algae; Iron; Bioavailability; Particulate carbon; Marine environment; Heterokontophyta; Biogeochemistry; Bacillariophyta; Bloom; Phytoplankton; Thallophyta
• ISSN: 0028-0836; 1476-4687; 1476-4687
• DOI: 10.1038/nature02437

Iron supply has a key role in stimulating phytoplankton blooms in high-nitrate low-chlorophyll oceanic waters 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 . However, the fate of the carbon fixed by these blooms, and how efficiently it is exported into the ocean's interior, remains largely unknown 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 . Here...