Oceanography - An ultimate limiting nutrient

被引:25
作者
Toggweiler, JR [1 ]
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[1] Princeton Univ, NOAA, Geophys Fluid Dynam Lab, Princeton, NJ 08542 USA
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10.1038/22892
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
A long debate has centred on what nutrient in the oceans is the main limitation on phytoplankton growth. Is one nutrient clearly more important than others, and, if so, on what timescales? The answer to emerge from newly published model calculations is that, over long periods, phosphorus, in the form of dissolved phosphate, is the ‘ultimate limiting nutrient’.
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