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Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2469-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2469-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
Research article
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16 May 2017
Research article |  | 16 May 2017

Sequential nutrient uptake as a potential mechanism for phytoplankton to maintain high primary productivity and balanced nutrient stoichiometry

Kedong Yin, Hao Liu, and Paul J. Harrison

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Nutrient-limited phytoplankton are capable of first taking up the limiting nutrient and continuing to take up non-limiting nutrients after the exhaustion of the limiting nutrient, and then taking up the limiting nutrient rapidly when it is available due to mixing of the water column. We refer to this process as phytoplankton sequential nutrient uptake. Our results showed the sequential nutrient uptake, a process to maintain the phytoplankton nutrient stoichiometry and high primary productivity.
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