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01 Dec 2021
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| 01 Dec 2021
Modeling cyanobacteria life cycle dynamics and historical nitrogen fixation in the Baltic Proper
Jenny Hieronymus
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of research and development, Swedish Meteorological and
Hydrological Institute, 60175 Norrköping, Sweden
Kari Eilola
Department of research and development, Swedish Meteorological and
Hydrological Institute, 60175 Norrköping, Sweden
Malin Olofsson
Department of research and development, Swedish Meteorological and
Hydrological Institute, 60175 Norrköping, Sweden
Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Inga Hense
Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fishery Science, Universität
Hamburg, 22767 Hamburg, Germany
H. E. Markus Meier
Department of research and development, Swedish Meteorological and
Hydrological Institute, 60175 Norrköping, Sweden
Department of Physical Oceanography and Instrumentation, Leibniz
Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, 18119 Rostock, Germany
Elin Almroth-Rosell
Department of research and development, Swedish Meteorological and
Hydrological Institute, 60175 Norrköping, Sweden
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Sediments in oxygen-depleted ocean areas release high amounts of phosphorus, feeding algae that consume oxygen upon degradation, leading to further phosphorus release. Oxygenation is thought to trap phosphorus in the sediment and break this feedback. We studied the sediment phosphorus cycle in a previously anoxic area after an inflow of oxic water. Surprisingly, the sediment phosphorus release increased, showing that feedbacks between phosphorus release and oxygen depletion can be hard to break.
Stelios Myriokefalitakis, Matthias Gröger, Jenny Hieronymus, and Ralf Döscher
Ocean Sci., 16, 1183–1205, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1183-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1183-2020, 2020
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Global inorganic and organic nutrient deposition fields are coupled to PISCES to investigate their effect on ocean biogeochemistry. Pre-industrial deposition fluxes are lower compared to the present day, resulting in lower oceanic productivity. Future changes result in a modest decrease in the nutrients put into the global ocean. This work provides a first assessment of the atmospheric organic nutrients' contribution, highlighting the importance of their representation in biogeochemistry models.
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Short summary
Dense blooms of cyanobacteria occur every summer in the Baltic Proper and can add to eutrophication by their ability to turn nitrogen gas into dissolved inorganic nitrogen. Being able to correctly estimate the size of this nitrogen fixation is important for management purposes. In this work, we find that the life cycle of cyanobacteria plays an important role in capturing the seasonality of the blooms as well as the size of nitrogen fixation in our ocean model.
Dense blooms of cyanobacteria occur every summer in the Baltic Proper and can add to...
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