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SUBMITTER: Buchanan PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6787065 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Buchanan Pearse J PJ Chase Zanna Z Matear Richard J RJ Phipps Steven J SJ Bindoff Nathaniel L NL
Nature communications 20191010 1
Roughly a third (~30 ppm) of the carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) that entered the ocean during ice ages is attributed to biological mechanisms. A leading hypothesis for the biological drawdown of CO<sub>2</sub> is iron (Fe) fertilisation of the high latitudes, but modelling efforts attribute at most 10 ppm to this mechanism, leaving ~20 ppm unexplained. We show that an Fe-induced stimulation of dinitrogen (N<sub>2</sub>) fixation can induce a low latitude drawdown of 7-16 ppm CO<sub>2</sub>. Thi ...[more]