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SUBMITTER: Martin P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4050623 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martin Patrick P Dyhrman Sonya T ST Lomas Michael W MW Poulton Nicole J NJ Van Mooy Benjamin A S BA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140421 22
Phytoplankton alter their biochemical composition according to nutrient availability, such that their bulk elemental composition varies across oceanic provinces. However, the links between plankton biochemical composition and variation in biogeochemical cycling of nutrients remain largely unknown. In a survey of phytoplankton phosphorus stress in the western North Atlantic, we found that phytoplankton in the phosphorus-depleted subtropical Sargasso Sea were enriched in the biochemical polyphosph ...[more]