Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Temporal controls on silicic acid utilisation along the West Antarctic Peninsula

  • George E. A. Swann,
  • Jennifer Pike,
  • Melanie J. Leng,
  • Hilary J. Sloane,
  • Andrea M. Snelling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14645
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Sea-ice plays a key role in regulating nutrient dynamics and primary productivity along the Antarctica Peninsula margin. Here, the authors show that over the last 13 kyr nutrient dynamics have also been regulated by glacial discharge, highlighting the potential for future changes as glaciers continue to melt.