Dalin Shi1, Yan Xu, Brian M Hopkinson

  • 1Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. dshi@princeton.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 16, 2010
PubMed
まとめ

二酸化炭素 (CO2) に起因する海洋酸化は,海洋生物にとって鉄 (Fe) の生物利用性を低下させる. この研究は,植物プランクトンによる鉄の吸収の減少を示し,海洋群の鉄ストレスを増やす可能性があることを示しています.

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