Oceanic nitrogen reservoir regulated by plankton diversity and ocean circulation

Thomas Weber () and Curtis Deutsch
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Thomas Weber: University of California Los Angeles
Curtis Deutsch: University of California Los Angeles

Nature, 2012, vol. 489, issue 7416, 419-422

Abstract: Here, the feedback between marine nitrogen fixation and denitrification is shown to yield an oceanic nitrate deficit more than double its observed value in a model with realistic ocean circulation; this discrepancy can be resolved by accounting for diversity in the metabolic N:P requirements of plankton.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1038/nature11357

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