Nutrient and arsenic biogeochemistry of Sargassum in the western Atlantic

Abstract The oceanographic ecology of pelagic Sargassum, and the means by which these floating macroalgae thrive in the nutrient-poor waters of the open ocean, have been studied for decades. Beginning in 2011, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB) emerged, with Sargassum proliferating in the trop...

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Main Authors: Dennis Joseph McGillicuddy, Peter Lynn Morton, Rachel Aileen Brewton, Chuanmin Hu, Thomas Bryce Kelly, Andrew Robert Solow, Brian Edward Lapointe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41904-4