Biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in shelf regions: The importance of cross-shelf exchange

• Main Author: Seyitmuhammedov, Kyyas
• Other Authors: Stirling, Claudine, Middag, Rob, Reid, Malcolm
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Otago 2021
• Subjects: trace metals; spring Fe; U isotopic composition; Western Antarctic Peninsula; Dotson-Getz Trough; Hauraki Gulf; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Getz; New Zealand; Southern Ocean; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/10781

Marine phytoplankton form the base of the marine food web and are fundamental to the efficiency of the ocean’s ‘biological pump’. The biological pump is especially important in the homeostasis of atmospheric CO2 levels through the sequestration of carbon into the deep ocean via organic matter produc...