| Literature DB >> 12738858 |
Atsushi Tsuda1, Shigenobu Takeda, Hiroaki Saito, Jun Nishioka, Yukihiro Nojiri, Isao Kudo, Hiroshi Kiyosawa, Akihiro Shiomoto, Keiri Imai, Tsuneo Ono, Akifumi Shimamoto, Daisuke Tsumune, Takeshi Yoshimura, Tatsuo Aono, Akira Hinuma, Masatoshi Kinugasa, Koji Suzuki, Yoshiki Sohrin, Yoshifumi Noiri, Heihachiro Tani, Yuji Deguchi, Nobuo Tsurushima, Hiroshi Ogawa, Kimio Fukami, Kenshi Kuma, Toshiro Saino.
Abstract
We have performed an in situ test of the iron limitation hypothesis in the subarctic North Pacific Ocean. A single enrichment of dissolved iron caused a large increase in phytoplankton standing stock and decreases in macronutrients and dissolved carbon dioxide. The dominant phytoplankton species shifted after the iron addition from pennate diatoms to a centric diatom, Chaetoceros debilis, that showed a very high growth rate, 2.6 doublings per day. We conclude that the bioavailability of iron regulates the magnitude of the phytoplankton biomass and the key phytoplankton species that determine the biogeochemical sensitivity to iron supply of high-nitrate, low-chlorophyll waters.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 12738858 DOI： 10.1126/science.1082000
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728