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Filtering by: DOI 10.4067/S0716-10182012000400011 Academic Affiliation Botany and Plant Pathology

An algorithm for detecting Trichodesmium surface blooms in the South Western Tropical Pacific

Creator:

Dupouy, C., Benielli-Gary, D., Neveux, J., Dandonneau, Y., and Westberry, T. K.

Abstract:

Trichodesmium, a major colonial cyanobacterial nitrogen fixer, forms large blooms in NO₃-depleted tropical oceans and enhances CO₂ sequestration by the ocean due to its ability to fix dissolved dinitrogen. Thus, its importance in C and N cycles requires better estimates of its distribution at basin to global scales. However, existing...

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