FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI The Seasonal Smorgasbord of the Seas
BT 
AF MARTIN, Adrien
AS 1:1;
FF 1:;
C1 National Oceanography Centre, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK
C2 NOC, UK
IF 31.03
TC 6
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00090/20112/17754.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB The spring bloom of phytoplankton—an annual population explosion that propagates poleward across much of the open ocean and spills across the continental shelves—is a seasonal bounty for the marine ecosystem. As it wanes, its annual legacy is a flux of carbon out of the atmosphere as the organic material, containing newly fixed carbon, sinks. On page 54 of this issue, Mahadevan et al. (1) suggest that the bloom can be triggered by instabilities in surface currents that trap phytoplankton near the sunlit surface. In another study, Teeling et al. (2) recently suggested that the bloom itself may help to explain the “paradox of the plankton” (3); how can a seemingly homogeneous ocean sustain thousands of species?
PY 2012
PD JUN
SO Science
SN 0036-8075
PU AAAS
VL 337
IS 6090
UT 000306053100038
BP 46
EP 47
DI 10.1126/science.1223881
ID 20112
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