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Rain-fed streams dilute inorganic nutrients but subsidise organic-matter-associated nutrients in coastal waters of the northeast Pacific Ocean
Kyra A. St. Pierre
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Hakai Institute, Tula Foundation, Heriot Bay, BC, V0P 1H0, Canada
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Brian P. V. Hunt
Hakai Institute, Tula Foundation, Heriot Bay, BC, V0P 1H0, Canada
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Suzanne E. Tank
Hakai Institute, Tula Foundation, Heriot Bay, BC, V0P 1H0, Canada
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB,
T6G 2E9, Canada
Ian Giesbrecht
Hakai Institute, Tula Foundation, Heriot Bay, BC, V0P 1H0, Canada
School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Maartje C. Korver
Hakai Institute, Tula Foundation, Heriot Bay, BC, V0P 1H0, Canada
current address: Department of Geography, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H3A
0B9, Canada
William C. Floyd
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Nanaimo,
BC, V9T 6E9, Canada
Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC, V9R 5S5, Canada
Allison A. Oliver
Hakai Institute, Tula Foundation, Heriot Bay, BC, V0P 1H0, Canada
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB,
T6G 2E9, Canada
current address: Skeena Fisheries Commission, Kispiox, BC, V0J 1Y4, Canada
Kenneth P. Lertzman
Hakai Institute, Tula Foundation, Heriot Bay, BC, V0P 1H0, Canada
School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
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Using 4 years of paired freshwater and marine water chemistry from the Central Coast of British Columbia (Canada), we show that coastal temperate rainforest streams are sources of organic nitrogen, iron, and carbon to the Pacific Ocean but not the inorganic nutrients easily used by marine phytoplankton. This distinction may have important implications for coastal food webs and highlights the need to sample all nutrients in fresh and marine waters year-round to fully understand coastal dynamics.
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