Phytoplankton productivity depends on the replenishment of nutrients in ocean surface waters. An explanation for a region of strikingly low productivity invokes a little-considered aspect of the nutrient cycle.
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Lévy, M. Nutrients in remote mode. Nature 437, 629–631 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/437628a
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