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Vertical migration by bulk phytoplankton sustains biodiversity and nutrient input to the surface ocean

Phytoplankton subsumes the great variety of unicellular photoautotrophs that perform roughly half of Earth’s primary production. They achieve this despite their challenging oceanic habitat, with opposing vertical gradients of nutrients (which often limit their growth near the surface) and light (whi...

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Autores principales: Wirtz, Kai, Smith, S. Lan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6981162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31980670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57890-2