Microorganisms and ocean global change

DA Hutchins, F Fu - Nature microbiology, 2017 - nature.com
The prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms that drive the pelagic ocean's
biogeochemical cycles are currently facing an unprecedented set of comprehensive …

Manifestation, drivers, and emergence of open ocean deoxygenation

LA Levin - Annual review of marine science, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Oxygen loss in the ocean, termed deoxygenation, is a major consequence of climate change
and is exacerbated by other aspects of global change. An average global loss of 2% or more …

System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion

GC Pitcher, A Aguirre-Velarde, D Breitburg… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The epoch of the Anthropocene, a period during which human activity has been the
dominant influence on climate and the environment, has witnessed a decline in oxygen …

Nitrate-dependent iron oxidation limits iron transport in anoxic ocean regions

F Scholz, CR Löscher, A Fiskal, S Sommer… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Iron is an essential element for life on Earth and limits primary production in large parts of
the ocean. Oxygen-free continental margin sediments represent an important source of …

Global observations of submesoscale coherent vortices in the ocean

D McCoy, D Bianchi, AL Stewart - Progress in Oceanography, 2020 - Elsevier
Subsurface-intensified anticyclones are ubiquitous in the ocean, yet their impact on the large-
scale transport of heat, salt and chemical tracers is poorly understood. These submesoscale …

Biogeochemical role of subsurface coherent eddies in the ocean: Tracer cannonballs, hypoxic storms, and microbial stewpots?

I Frenger, D Bianchi, C Stührenberg… - Global …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Subsurface eddies are known features of ocean circulation, but the sparsity of observations
prevents an assessment of their importance for biogeochemistry. Here we use a global …

[HTML][HTML] No nitrogen fixation in the Bay of Bengal?

CR Löscher, W Mohr, HW Bange, DE Canfield - Biogeosciences, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Abstract The Bay of Bengal (BoB) has long stood as a biogeochemical enigma, with
subsurface waters containing extremely low, but persistent, concentrations of oxygen in the …

Dead zone or oasis in the open ocean? Zooplankton distribution and migration in low-oxygen modewater eddies

H Hauss, S Christiansen, F Schütte, R Kiko… - …, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
The eastern tropical North Atlantic (ETNA) features a mesopelagic oxygen minimum zone
(OMZ) at approximately 300–600 m depth. Here, oxygen concentrations rarely fall below 40 …

Mesoscale contribution to the long-range offshore transport of organic carbon from the Canary Upwelling System to the open North Atlantic

E Lovecchio, N Gruber, M Münnich - Biogeosciences, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
Several studies in upwelling regions have suggested that mesoscale structures, such as
eddies and filaments, contribute substantially to the long-range transport of the organic …

Upwelling and isolation in oxygen-depleted anticyclonic modewater eddies and implications for nitrate cycling

J Karstensen, F Schütte, A Pietri, G Krahmann… - …, 2017 - bg.copernicus.org
The temporal evolution of the physical and biogeochemical structure of an oxygen-depleted
anticyclonic modewater eddy is investigated over a 2-month period using high-resolution …