Antarctic Paradox

Priddle, J., Nedwell, D. B., Whitehouse, M. J., Reay, D. S., Savidge, G., Gilpi Elhs-Evans, J. C. (1998). Re-examining the Antarctic Paradox speculation as a nutrient-hmited system. Amt. GlcKiol. 11, 661—668. 

Studies carried out in oligotrophic areas of major oceanic gyres showed a marked surface depletion of major nutrients and nutrient type trace metals, but this is not the case in Antarctic waters and some other areas presenting nutrient-rich waters. The high levels of nutrients and the simultaneous low primary production in surface Antarctic waters constitute the so-called Antarctic Paradox . 

El-Sayed, S. Z. (1987). Biological productivity of Antarctic waters Present paradoxes and emerging paradigms. In Antarctic Aquatic Biology (El-Sayed, S. Z., and Tomo, A. P., eds.). SCAR Cambridge, England, pp. 1-21. 

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