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1991, Oceanography 4(2):71–78, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.1991.05
Ecological Processes in the Subarctic Pacific: Iron-Limitation Cannot Be the Whole Story
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Authors
Charles B. Miller | College of Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Bruce W. Frost | School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Beatrice Booth | School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Patricia A. Wheeler | College of Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Michael R. Landry | Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
Nicholas Welschmeyer | Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, USA
First Paragraph
Stretching across the Pacific between 45°N and the coast of Alaska (Fig. 1) is an oceanic region referred to as subarctic. It is part of a broader oceanic region in which major phytoplankton nutrients (nitrate, phosphate, and silicate) apparently are never depleted from the surface layer. Persistently high nutrient concentrations are found along the entire eastern edge of the Pacific with westward extensions in the subarctic and along the equator and with eastward extensions through Drake Passage and then around the globe south of 35°S (Reid, 1962). Ecological relationships vary dramatically along this nutrient-replete belt, and assembly of a complete comparative ecology for all of its distinctive parts has only begun.
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Citation
Miller, C.B., B.W. Frost, B. Booth, P.A. Wheeler, M.R. Landry, and N. Weischmeyer. 1991. Ecological processes in the subarctic Pacific: Iron-limitation cannot be the whole story. Oceanography 4(2):71–78, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.1991.05.