Iron uncertainty

Adina Paytan ()
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Adina Paytan: Stanford University

Nature, 2000, vol. 406, issue 6795, 468-469

Abstract: According to the 'iron hypothesis', the availability of iron as a nutrient is the main control on phytoplankton growth in the oceans, and so determines how much CO2 is drawn down from the atmosphere. The results of a study of sediment cores from the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean cast doubt on this view.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35020176

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