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AGU EOS: Dry Valley streams contribute important nutrients to the Ross Sea [1]

The latest edition of American Geophysical Union's Earth & Space Science News (EOS) Research Spotlights [2] highlights research [3] performed by former graduate student Sydney Olund and PI emeritus Berry Lyons [4] in which they've discovered McMurdo Dry Valley streams contribute important nutrients, such as iron and phosphorus, to coastal phytoplankton communities living in the Ross Sea. Their study, recently published [5] in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, highlights the importance of local nutrient inputs to the Southern Ocean.

Article Date: 

04/22/2019

Related publications: 

Fe and Nutrients in Coastal Antarctic Streams: Implications for Primary Production in the Ross Sea [6]

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Source URL: http://mcm.lternet.edu/article/2019/07/08/agu-eos-dry-valley-streams-contribute-important-nutrients-ross-sea

Links
[1] http://mcm.lternet.edu/article/2019/07/08/agu-eos-dry-valley-streams-contribute-important-nutrients-ross-sea
[2] https://eos.org/research-spotlights
[3] https://eos.org/research-spotlights/antarcticas-seasonal-streams-contribute-iron-to-the-ross-sea
[4] http://mcm.lternet.edu/people/w-berry-lyons
[5] https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JG004352
[6] http://mcm.lternet.edu/content/fe-and-nutrients-coastal-antarctic-streams-implications-primary-production-ross-sea
[7] http://mcm.lternet.edu/section/news