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Kohfeld, K.E., Le Quéré, C. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2319-0452, Harrison, S.P. and Anderson, R.F.
(2005)
Role of marine biology in glacial-interglacial CO cycles.
Science, 308 (5718).
pp. 74-78.
ISSN 0036-8075
Abstract
It has been hypothesized that changes in the marine biological pump caused a major portion of the glacial reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide by 80 to 100 parts per million through increased iron fertilization of marine plankton, increased ocean nutrient content or utilization, or shifts in dominant plankton types. We analyze sedimentary records of marine productivity at the peak and the middle of the last glacial cycle and show that neither changes in nutrient utilization in the Southern Ocean nor shifts in plankton dominance explain the CO drawdown. Iron fertilization and associated mechanisms can be responsible for no more than half the observed drawdown.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School University of East Anglia > Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2014 11:26 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2023 10:38 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/47468 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/science.1105375 |
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