Phenology of Trichodesmium spp. blooms in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, Australia, from the ESA-MERIS 10-year mission.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: David Blondeau-Patissier, Vittorio Ernesto Brando, Christian Lønborg, Susannah M Leahy, Arnold G Dekker
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; North Cape; Gam; Mackay; Cape York; Fitzroy
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208010; https://doaj.org/article/8e3ed971d008469bbfae61273bc0e9f0

Trichodesmium, a filamentous bloom-forming marine cyanobacterium, plays a key role in the biogeochemistry of oligotrophic ocean regions because of the ability to fix nitrogen. Naturally occurring in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), the contribution of Trichodesmium to the nutrient budget may be of the...