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SUBMITTER: Rodellas V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4386347 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rodellas Valentí V Garcia-Orellana Jordi J Masqué Pere P Feldman Mor M Weinstein Yishai Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150316 13
The Mediterranean Sea (MS) is a semienclosed basin that is considered one of the most oligotrophic seas in the world. In such an environment, inputs of allochthonous nutrients and micronutrients play an important role in sustaining primary productivity. Atmospheric deposition and riverine runoff have been traditionally considered the main external sources of nutrients to the MS, whereas the role of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) has been largely ignored. However, given the large Mediterra ...[more]