| Literature DB >> 17510362 |
Claudia R Benitez-Nelson1, Robert R Bidigare, Tommy D Dickey, Michael R Landry, Carrie L Leonard, Susan L Brown, Francesco Nencioli, Yoshimi M Rii, Kanchan Maiti, Jamie W Becker, Thomas S Bibby, Wil Black, Wei-Jun Cai, Craig A Carlson, Feizhou Chen, Victor S Kuwahara, Claire Mahaffey, Patricia M McAndrew, Paul D Quay, Michael S Rappé, Karen E Selph, Melinda P Simmons, Eun Jin Yang.
Abstract
Mesoscale eddies may play a critical role in ocean biogeochemistry by increasing nutrient supply, primary production, and efficiency of the biological pump, that is, the ratio of carbon export to primary production in otherwise nutrient-deficient waters. We examined a diatom bloom within a cold-core cyclonic eddy off Hawaii. Eddy primary production, community biomass, and size composition were markedly enhanced but had little effect on the carbon export ratio. Instead, the system functioned as a selective silica pump. Strong trophic coupling and inefficient organic export may be general characteristics of community perturbation responses in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17510362 DOI： 10.1126/science.1136221
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728