Communications Earth & Environment (Aug 2021)

Oceanic phytoplankton are a potentially important source of benzenoids to the remote marine atmosphere

  • Manon Rocco,
  • Erin Dunne,
  • Maija Peltola,
  • Neill Barr,
  • Jonathan Williams,
  • Aurélie Colomb,
  • Karl Safi,
  • Alexia Saint-Macary,
  • Andrew Marriner,
  • Stacy Deppeler,
  • James Harnwell,
  • Cliff Law,
  • Karine Sellegri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00253-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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A group of aromatic hydrocarbons in the remote marine atmosphere, typically classified as anthropogenic pollutants, are attributable to local biogenic sources, according to shipborne observations and mesocosm experiments.