Colonies of marine cyanobacteria Trichodesmium interact with associated bacteria to acquire iron from dust

S Basu, M Gledhill, D de Beer… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Iron (Fe) bioavailability limits phytoplankton growth in vast ocean regions. Iron-rich dust
uplifted from deserts is transported in the atmosphere and deposited on the ocean surface …

Climate swings in the northern Red Sea over the last 150,000 years from εNd and Mg/Ca of marine sediments

A Hartman, A Torfstein, A Almogi-Labin - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The εNd and Mg/Ca compositions of terrigenous material from a meridional transect
of seven marine sediment cores located between the northern Red Sea and the Gulf of …

Selective collection of iron-rich dust particles by natural Trichodesmium colonies

N Kessler, R Armoza-Zvuloni, S Wang, S Basu… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Dust is an important iron (Fe) source to the ocean, but its utilization by phytoplankton is
constrained by rapid sinking and slow dissolution dust-bound iron (dust-Fe). Colonies of the …

Mineral iron utilization by natural and cultured Trichodesmium and associated bacteria

S Basu, Y Shaked - Limnology and Oceanography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The high iron (Fe) demands of Trichodesmium, a keystone nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacterium,
are often met by dust deposition at the ocean surface. Following up on our findings of unique …

Colonies of the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium optimize dust utilization by selective collection and retention of nutrient-rich particles

S Wang, C Koedooder, F Zhang, N Kessler, M Eichner… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Trichodesmium, a globally important, N 2-fixing, and colony-forming cyanobacterium,
employs multiple pathways for acquiring nutrients from air-borne dust, including active dust …

Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals

ACA Blanckaert, D Omanović, M Fine… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change‐related increase in seawater temperature has become a leading cause of
coral bleaching and mortality. However, corals from the northern Red Sea show high …

Bulk and export production fluxes in the Gulf of Aqaba, Northern Red Sea

A Torfstein, SS Kienast, B Yarden, A Rivlin… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Marine particulate fluxes were studied between 2014 and 2017 in the oligotrophic Gulf of
Aqaba (GOA), northern Red Sea. A bottom tethered mooring mounted with 5 sediment trap …

Copper enrichment reduces thermal tolerance of the highly resistant Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata

G Banc-Prandi, M Fine - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
Corals in the Gulf of Aqaba (GoA) in the northern Red Sea show high thermal tolerance. The
GoA has therefore been suggested as a coral reef refuge from climate change. However, as …

Heavy metal, rare earth element and Pb isotope dynamics in mussels during a depuration experiment in the Gulf of Aqaba, Northern Red Sea

T Benaltabet, E Gutner-Hoch… - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mussels are considered highly efficient marine biomonitors, tracing anthropogenic and
natural variations in heavy metals and various organic compounds. While heavy metals …

Dissolved aluminium dynamics in response to dust storms, wet deposition, and sediment resuspension in the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea

T Benaltabet, G Lapid, A Torfstein - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Dissolved aluminium (Al) is a primary tracer of atmospheric deposition to the open ocean.
However, the impact of short-term environmental perturbations such as dust storms …