COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Eddy-Driven Stratification Initiates North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Blooms
Description: Since 1997, ocean color satellite images have revealed large-scale blooms of the coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi in the eastern Bering Sea. The blooms are often sustained over several months and have caused ecosystem changes in the Arctic Ocean, as well as in the Bering Sea. In this study scientists examined continental shelf sediment profiles of alkenone, a biomarker for E. huxleyi, covering the past ∼70 years. [Source: GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011GB004177
Availability: Summary
Source: GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
Publish Date: 7/19/2012
Reading Level: Expert
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