Oceans nutrient supply

Oschlies A (2008) Eddies and upper-ocean nutrient supply, pp 115-130. In Hecht and Hasumi... 

Fig. 8. Steady-state model for the earth s surface geochemical system. The kiteraction of water with rocks ki the presence of photosynthesized organic matter contkiuously produces reactive material of high surface area. This process provides nutrient supply to the biosphere and, along with biota, forms the array of small particles (sods). Weatheriag imparts solutes to the water, and erosion brings particles kito surface waters and oceans.

Schneider, R. R., P. J. Muller, and M. Zabel. 1996. "Biogenic opal in the eastern South Atlantic patterns of surface water productivity, sedimentary accumulation, and benthic silicate fluxes in relation to oceanic and fluvial nutrient supply." In OPALEO On the Use of Opal as a PaleoProductivity Proxy, ed. O. Ragueneau, A. Leynaert, and P. Treguer (Brest, France), pp. 98-103. 

AbeU, J., Emerson, S., and Renaud, P. (2000). Distributions of TOP, TON and TOC in the North Pacific subtropical gyre Implications for nutrient supply in the surface ocean and reminerahzation in the upper thermocline. Journal of Marine Research 58(2), 203-222. 

Mahadevan, A., and Archer, D. (2000). Modeling the impact of fronts andmesoscale circulation on the nutrient supply and biogeochemistry of the upper ocean. J. Geophys. Res. 105, 1209—1225. 

Mineral dust also has important effects on the amounts of nutrients supplied to the oceans, thereby affecting biological productivity and amounts of CO2 released into the atmosphere (Martin and Gordon, 1988 Watson, 1997). Iron is thought to be a limiting factor for phytoplankton productivity in remote marine areas (Falkowski et al., 1998 Fung et al., 2000 Gao et al., 2001). 

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