Other Nutrients and Dissolved Oxygen and Climate Change

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Part of the Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution book series (EGEP, volume 1)

Abstract

Primary and secondary production in the ocean depends on the supply of a few key elements. A combination of physical, chemical, and microbial processes mediates the cycling of these elements through the environment and determines their supply. Anthropogenic perturbations to the cycles of these elements, either directly or through global warming, could result in severe alterations of patterns of primary production and a reorganization of marine ecosystems.

Keywords

Nitrogen Phosphorus Silicate Iron Oxygen N2 fixation Denitrification Deoxygenation Hypoxia Anoxia 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of OceanographyDalhousie UniversityHalifaxCanada

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