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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-851-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-851-2020
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No nitrogen fixation in the Bay of Bengal?

Carolin R. Löscher, Wiebke Mohr, Hermann W. Bange, and Donald E. Canfield

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Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) are ocean areas severely depleted in oxygen as a result of physical, chemical, and biological processes. Biologically, organic material is produced in the sea surface and exported to deeper waters, where it respires. In the Bay of Bengal (BoB), an OMZ is present, but there are traces of oxygen left. Our study now suggests that this is because one key process, nitrogen fixation, is absent in the BoB, thus preventing primary production and consecutive respiration.
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