Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is a leading cause of land-ice mass loss and cryosphere-attributed sea level rise. Blooms of pigmented glacier ice algae lower ice albedo and accelerate surface melting in the ice sheet’s southwest sector. Although glacier ice algae cause up to 13% of the surface m...
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ftvliz:oai:oma.vliz.be:354081 2023-05-15T16:20:54+02:00 Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet McCutcheon, J. Lutz, S. Williamson, C. Cook, J.M. Tedstone, A.J. Vanderstraeten, A. Wilson, S.A. Stockdale, A. Bonneville, S. Anesio, A.M. Yallop, M.L. McQuaid, J.B. Tranter, M. Benning, L.G. 2021 application/pdf https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/380024.pdf en eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/000684834100015 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20627-w https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/380024.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess %3Ci%3ENature+Comm.+12%281%29%3C%2Fi%3E%3A+570.+%3Ca+href%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1038%2Fs41467-020-20627-w%22+target%3D%22_blank%22%3Ehttps%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1038%2Fs41467-020-20627-w%3C%2Fa%3E info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftvliz https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20627-w 2022-07-27T22:23:50Z Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is a leading cause of land-ice mass loss and cryosphere-attributed sea level rise. Blooms of pigmented glacier ice algae lower ice albedo and accelerate surface melting in the ice sheet’s southwest sector. Although glacier ice algae cause up to 13% of the surface melting in this region, the controls on bloom development remain poorly understood. Here we show a direct link between mineral phosphorus in surface ice and glacier ice algae biomass through the quantification of solid and fluid phase phosphorus reservoirs in surface habitats across the southwest ablation zone of the ice sheet. We demonstrate that nutrients from mineral dust likely drive glacier ice algal growth, and thereby identify mineral dust as a secondary control on ice sheet melting. Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Greenland ice algae Ice Sheet Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Open Marine Archive (OMA) Greenland Nature Communications 12 1 |
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Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is a leading cause of land-ice mass loss and cryosphere-attributed sea level rise. Blooms of pigmented glacier ice algae lower ice albedo and accelerate surface melting in the ice sheet’s southwest sector. Although glacier ice algae cause up to 13% of the surface melting in this region, the controls on bloom development remain poorly understood. Here we show a direct link between mineral phosphorus in surface ice and glacier ice algae biomass through the quantification of solid and fluid phase phosphorus reservoirs in surface habitats across the southwest ablation zone of the ice sheet. We demonstrate that nutrients from mineral dust likely drive glacier ice algal growth, and thereby identify mineral dust as a secondary control on ice sheet melting. |
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McCutcheon, J. Lutz, S. Williamson, C. Cook, J.M. Tedstone, A.J. Vanderstraeten, A. Wilson, S.A. Stockdale, A. Bonneville, S. Anesio, A.M. Yallop, M.L. McQuaid, J.B. Tranter, M. Benning, L.G. |
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McCutcheon, J. Lutz, S. Williamson, C. Cook, J.M. Tedstone, A.J. Vanderstraeten, A. Wilson, S.A. Stockdale, A. Bonneville, S. Anesio, A.M. Yallop, M.L. McQuaid, J.B. Tranter, M. Benning, L.G. Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet |
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McCutcheon, J. Lutz, S. Williamson, C. Cook, J.M. Tedstone, A.J. Vanderstraeten, A. Wilson, S.A. Stockdale, A. Bonneville, S. Anesio, A.M. Yallop, M.L. McQuaid, J.B. Tranter, M. Benning, L.G. |
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Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet |
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Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet |
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Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet |
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Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet |
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Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet |
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mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the greenland ice sheet |
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