Iron Defecation By Sperm Whales Stimulates Carbon Export In The Southern Ocean

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Iron Defecation By Sperm Whales Stimulates Carbon Export In The Southern Ocean

Lavery T; Roudnew Ben; Gill Paul; Seymour Justin; Seuront L; Johnson Graham; Mitchell John; Smetacek V
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10453/13378
Date: 2010

Abstract:

The iron-limited Southern Ocean plays an important role in regulating atmospheric CO2 levels. Marine mammal respiration has been proposed to decrease the efficiency of the Southern Ocean biological pump by returning photosynthetically fixed carbon to the

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