Oceanography: An ultimate limiting nutrient

J. R. Toggweiler ()
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J. R. Toggweiler: NOAAs Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6744, 511-512

Abstract: A long debate has centred on what nutrient in the oceans is the main limitation on phytoplankton growth. Is one nutrient clearly more important than others, and, if so, on what timescales? The answer to emerge from newly published model calculations is that, over long periods, phosphorus, in the form of dissolved phosphate, is the ‘ultimate limiting nutrient’.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/22892

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