Upward nitrate transport by phytoplankton in oceanic waters: balancing nutrient budgets in oligotrophic seas.

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Published in PeerJ on March 13, 2014

Authors

Tracy A Villareal1, Cynthia H Pilskaln2, Joseph P Montoya3, Mark Dennett4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Marine Science and Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas , Austin, Port Aransas, Austin, TX , USA.
2: School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth , New Bedford, MA , USA.
3: School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta, GA , USA.
4: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution , Woods Hole, MA , USA.

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