Sub‐seasonal forcing drives year‐to‐year variations of southern ocean primary productivity

CJ Prend, MG Keerthi, M Lévy… - Global …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Primary productivity in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in global biogeochemical cycles.
While much focus has been placed on phytoplankton production seasonality, non‐seasonal …

[HTML][HTML] Inferring source regions and supply mechanisms of iron in the Southern Ocean from satellite chlorophyll data

RM Graham, AM De Boer, E van Sebille… - Deep Sea Research …, 2015 - Elsevier
Primary productivity is limited by the availability of iron over large areas of the global ocean.
Changes in the supply of iron to these regions could have major impacts on primary …

Southern Ocean phytoplankton blooms observed by biogeochemical floats

T Uchida, D Balwada, R Abernathey… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The spring bloom in the Southern Ocean is the rapid‐growth phase of the seasonal cycle in
phytoplankton. Many previous studies have characterized the spring bloom using …

A tale of three islands: Downstream natural iron fertilization in the Southern Ocean

J Robinson, EE Popova, MA Srokosz… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Iron limitation of primary productivity prevails across much of the Southern Ocean but there
are exceptions; in particular, the phytoplankton blooms associated with the Kerguelen …

Species- and site-specific circulating bacterial DNA in Subantarctic sentinel mussels Aulacomya atra and Mytilus platensis

S Ferchiou, F Caza, R Villemur, S Betoulle… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Impacts of climate changes are particularly severe in polar regions where warmer
temperatures and reductions in sea-ice covers threaten the ecological integrity of marine …

Relaxation of wind stress drives the abrupt onset of biological carbon uptake in the Kerguelen bloom: a multisensor approach

V Pellichero, J Boutin, H Claustre… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We deployed sensors for physical and biogeochemical measurements on one Eulerian
mooring and two Lagrangian biogeochemical Argo floats on the Kerguelen Plateau. High …

Space and time variability of the S outhern O cean carbon budget

I Rosso, MR Mazloff, A Verdy… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The upper ocean dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) concentration is regulated by advective
and diffusive transport divergence, biological processes, freshwater, and air‐sea CO2 …

Production regime and associated N cycling in the vicinity of Kerguelen Island, Southern Ocean

AJ Cavagna, F Fripiat, M Elskens, P Mangion… - …, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
Although the Southern Ocean is considered a high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll (HNLC) area,
massive and recurrent blooms are observed over and downstream of the Kerguelen …

Characterizing marine heatwaves in the Kerguelen Plateau region

Z Su, GS Pilo, S Corney, NJ Holbrook… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged extreme oceanic warm water events. Globally, the
frequency and intensity of MHWs have been increasing in recent years, and it is expected …

Autonomous profiling float observations of the high-biomass plume downstream of the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean

M Grenier, A Della Penna, TW Trull - Biogeosciences, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
Natural iron fertilisation from Southern Ocean islands results in high primary production and
phytoplankton biomass accumulations readily visible in satellite ocean colour observations …