Reposted by Juan Pablo D'Olivo Cordero
Check out our latest work, led by Jon Jung, Ph.D. student in the @amglab.bsky.social at @mpic.de:
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Here we show that the supply of excess phosphorous from accounts for the majority of observed Sargassum variability since 2011.
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Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms - Nature Geoscience
High near-surface nitrogen-fixation rates that promoted the recent growth of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt were tied to greater upwelling of phosphorus from the equatorial Atlantic, according to c...