Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Around one third of current Arctic Ocean primary production sustained by rivers and coastal erosion

  • Jens Terhaar,
  • Ronny Lauerwald,
  • Pierre Regnier,
  • Nicolas Gruber,
  • Laurent Bopp

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20470-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The Arctic Ocean is influenced by carbon and nutrients from rivers and erosion, but how this affects phytoplankton productivity is not understood. Here, the authors use a spatio-temporally resolved biogeochemical model to estimate that the input of carbon and nutrients fuels 28–51% of annual Arctic Ocean productivity.