Glacial and hydrothermal sources of dissolved iron(II) in Southern Ocean waters surrounding Heard and McDonald Islands

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Holmes, TM, Wuttig, K, Chase, Z, Schallenberg, C, van der Merwe, P, Townsend, AT, Bowie, AR
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc. 2020
• Subjects: GEOTRACES; biogeochemistry; iron; trace metal; Southern Ocean; Kerguelen Plateau; Austral; Heard; Heard Island; Indian; Kerguelen; McDonald Islands
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/40274/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/40274/1/140938%20-%20Glacial%20and%20hydrothermal%20sources%20of%20dissolved%20iron%28II%29_OA.pdf

The Southern Ocean is the largest region in which iron limits the growth of phytoplankton. However, a phytoplankton bloom thousands of square kilometres in area forms each spring‐summer in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean, both above and to the east of the Kerguelen Plateau. The central regio...