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Science 4 May 1973:
Vol. 180. no. 4085, pp. 491 - 493
DOI: 10.1126/science.180.4085.491
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Glaciers and Nutrients in Arctic Seas

S. Apollonio 1

1 Fisheries Research Station, Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04575

Significantly higher concentrations of nitrate and silicate were found in glaciated South Cape Fiord than in unglaciated Grise Fiord, in the Canadian Arctic, or in adjacent Jones Sound. No significant differences in phosphate concentrations were found. Glacial activity apparently enriches the concentrations of those nutrients most critically limiting for arctic phytoplankton requirements.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Glaciers and Nutrients in Arctic Fiords.
M. J. Dunbar (1973)
Science 182, 398
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