THE SILICA CYCLE IN THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN - IS THE WEDDELL SEA ATYPICAL

• Main Authors: LEYNAERT, Aude, NELSON, David, QUEGUINER, Bernard, TRÉGUER, Paul
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Inter Research 1993
• Subjects: Planète et Univers [physics]/Sciences de la Terre/Océanographie; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Joinville; Joinville Island; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/28050

The lowest biogenic silica production rates in the Southern Ocean (average of 2.59 mmol Si m-2 d-1) have been recorded in an area of heavy ice cover along a transect through the Weddell Sea from Joinville Island to Cap Norvegia (November-December 1990). The associated biomass was also very low (conc...