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ing epibiotic and pelagic communities. These icebergs can be compared to estuaries that supply surrounding coastal regions with nutrients. In that respect, icebergs may be thought of as “Lagran-gian estuaries, ” drifting through the Southern Ocean while enriching the surrounding pelagic zone. Our pr...

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Main Authors: D. G. Vaughan, G. J. Marshall, W. M. Connolley, A. J. Cook, A. J. Fox, J. G. Ferrigno, T. A. Scambos, C. Hulbe, M. Fahnestock, J. Bohl, R. N. Williams, W. G. Rees, N. W. Young, Int J. Remote
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
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Southern Ocean
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.505.345
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Summary:ing epibiotic and pelagic communities. These icebergs can be compared to estuaries that supply surrounding coastal regions with nutrients. In that respect, icebergs may be thought of as “Lagran-gian estuaries, ” drifting through the Southern Ocean while enriching the surrounding pelagic zone. Our preliminary studies suggest that free-drifting icebergs and their associated communities could serve as areas of increased production and sequestration of organic carbon to the deep sea, a process unaccounted for in current global carbon budgets (33).

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