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SUBMITTER: Gallisai R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4205005 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gallisai Rachele R Peters Francesc F Volpe Gianluca G Basart Sara S Baldasano José Maria JM
PloS one 20141021 10
The surface waters of the Mediterranean Sea are extremely poor in the nutrients necessary for plankton growth. At the same time, the Mediterranean Sea borders with the largest and most active desert areas in the world and the atmosphere over the basin is subject to frequent injections of mineral dust particles. We describe statistical correlations between dust deposition over the Mediterranean Sea and surface chlorophyll concentrations at ecological time scales. Aerosol deposition of Saharan ori ...[more]