Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

The interplay between regeneration and scavenging fluxes drives ocean iron cycling

  • Alessandro Tagliabue,
  • Andrew R. Bowie,
  • Timothy DeVries,
  • Michael J. Ellwood,
  • William M. Landing,
  • Angela Milne,
  • Daniel C. Ohnemus,
  • Benjamin S. Twining,
  • Philip W. Boyd

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12775-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Iron is crucial for marine photosynthesis, but observational constraints on the magnitude of key iron cycle processes are lacking. Here the authors use a range of observational data sets to demonstrate that the balance between iron re-supply and removal in the subsurface controls upper ocean iron limitation.