Community composition and photosynthetic physiology of phytoplankton in the western subarctic Pacific near the Kuril Islands with special reference to iron availability ...

• Main Authors: Yoshida, Kazuhiro, Nakamura, Suzu, Nishioka, Jun, Hooker, Stanford, Suzuki, Koji
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2019
• Subjects: The western subarctic Pacific; Phytoplankton community; photophysiology; Scanning electron microscopy; iron availability; oceanic primary production; Kamchatka Peninsula; Okhotsk; Pacific; Kamchatka; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.k3j9kd53q; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.k3j9kd53q

The western subarctic Pacific (WSP) is known as one of the most productive regions among the world’s oceans in spring. However, its oceanic waters are also known as a High Nutrient, Low Chlorophyll (HNLC) region during summer due to low iron (Fe) availability in seawater. Indeed, recent studies have...