Aerosol trace metal leaching and impacts on marine microorganisms

NM Mahowald, DS Hamilton, KRM Mackey… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Metal dissolution from atmospheric aerosol deposition to the oceans is important in
enhancing and inhibiting phytoplankton growth rates and modifying plankton community …

Impacts of atmospheric anthropogenic nitrogen on the open ocean

RA Duce, J LaRoche, K Altieri, KR Arrigo, AR Baker… - science, 2008 - science.org
Increasing quantities of atmospheric anthropogenic fixed nitrogen entering the open ocean
could account for up to about a third of the ocean's external (nonrecycled) nitrogen supply …

Quantifying atmospheric nitrate formation pathways based on a global model of the oxygen isotopic composition (Δ17O) of atmospheric nitrate

B Alexander, MG Hastings, DJ Allman… - Atmospheric …, 2009 - acp.copernicus.org
The oxygen isotopic composition (Δ 17 O) of atmospheric nitrate is a function of the relative
abundance of atmospheric oxidants (O 3, RO x= OH+ HO 2+ RO 2) and the formation …

Atmospheric deposition of organic and black carbon to the global oceans

E Jurado, J Dachs, CM Duarte, R Simó - Atmospheric Environment, 2008 - Elsevier
Atmospheric deposition of total organic carbon (OC) and black carbon (BC) is lacking or not
fully accounted in most current models of the global carbon cycling, specially those fluxes …

The oligotrophic ocean is heterotrophic

CM Duarte, A Regaudie-de-Gioux… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Incubation (in vitro) and incubation-free (in situ) methods, each with their own advantages
and limitations, have been used to derive estimates of net community metabolism in the …

Effects of African dust deposition on phytoplankton in the western tropical Atlantic Ocean off Barbados

CT Chien, KRM Mackey, S Dutkiewicz… - Global …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Bioassay incubation experiments conducted with nutrients and local atmospheric aerosol
amendments indicate that phosphorus (P) availability limited phytoplankton growth in the …

Copper aerosols inhibit phytoplankton growth in the Mediterranean Sea

A Jordi, G Basterretxea, A Tovar-Sánchez… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
Aerosol deposition plays an important role in climate and biogeochemical cycles by
supplying nutrients to the open ocean, in turn stimulating ocean productivity and carbon …

Viability and potential for immigration of airborne bacteria from Africa that reach high mountain lakes in Europe

A Hervàs, L Camarero, I Reche… - Environmental …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We have analysed the diversity of the bacteria, which grow after addition of concentrated
airborne particles and desert dust in different microcosms combinations with water samples …

[HTML][HTML] African desert dust influences migrations and fisheries of the Atlantic skipjack-tuna

S Rodríguez, R Riera, A Fonteneau… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Atmospheric deposition of desert dust and other aerosols influence on the open ocean
ecosystem and climate. These aerosols provide iron, phosphorus and bio-essential trace …

Heterotrophic bacterial respiration

C Robinson - Microbial ecology of the oceans, 2008 - research-portal.uea.ac.uk
Marine heterotrophic bacteria are ubiquitous and abundant, occurring from the sea surface
microlayer to the deepest ocean depths, at densities measured in millions of cells per …