C J M Hoppe, C Klaas, S Ossebaar, M A Soppa, W Cheah, L M Laglera, J Santos-Echeandia, B Rost, D A Wolf-Gladrow, A Bracher, M Hoppema, V Strass, S Trimborn
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current has a high potential for primary production and carbon sequestration through the biological pump. In the current study, two large-scale blooms observed in 2012 during a cruise with R.V. Polarstern were investigated with respect to phytoplankton standing stocks, primary productivity and nutrient budgets. While net primary productivity was similar in both blooms, chlorophyll a -specific photosynthesis was more efficient in the bloom closer to the island of South Georgia (39 °W, 50 °S) compared to the open ocean bloom further east (12 °W, 51 °S)...
April 2017: Deep-sea Research. Part II, Topical Studies in Oceanography