Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Nutrient supply controls particulate elemental concentrations and ratios in the low latitude eastern Indian Ocean

  • Catherine A. Garcia,
  • Steven E. Baer,
  • Nathan S. Garcia,
  • Sara Rauschenberg,
  • Benjamin S. Twining,
  • Michael W. Lomas,
  • Adam C. Martiny

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06892-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The Indian Ocean provides a unique environmental gradient to test underlying drivers of the elemental composition of particulate organic matter. Here the authors show that nutrient supply, over temperature and biodiversity changes, controls regional variation of elemental ratios in the tropical Indian Ocean.