Glacial/Interglacial Export Production in the Subantarctic South Pacific

• Main Author: Adamic, Jessica
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Primary productivity (Biology); Oceania; Geochemistry; Export production; South Pacific; Phosphorus geochemistry; Pacific; Sarmiento; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10484/972

Atmospheric CO2 varied considerably in the past; however, the mechanisms that drive this variability are poorly understood. CO2 is linked to marine primary productivity through the biological carbon pump (BCP), leading to hypotheses that past increases in BCP efficiency in areas such as the Southern...