Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Oceanography

The trouble with the bubble

Subjects

Past studies have suggested that the ocean's nitrogen budget has a deficit of fixed nitrogen. This view may now change, thanks to upward revisions of the rate of nitrogen input through biological activity. See Letter p.361

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Relevant articles

Open Access articles citing this article.

Access options

Rent or buy this article

Prices vary by article type

from$1.95

to$39.95

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Figure 1: Marine nitrogen fixation.

Notes

  1. *This article and the paper under discussion2 were published online on 8 August 2012.

References

  1. Codispoti, L. A. Biogeosci. Discuss. 3, 1203–1246 (2006).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. Großkopf, T. et al. Nature 488, 361–364 10.1038/nature11338 (2012).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Luo, Y.-W. et al. Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. 5, 47–106 (2012).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. Montoya, J. P., Voss, M., Kahler, P. & Capone, D. G. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62, 986–993 (1996).

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  5. Mahaffey, C., Michaels, A. F. & Capone, D. G. Am. J. Sci. 305, 546–595 (2005).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Zehr, J. P., Mellon, M. T. & Zani, S. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64, 3444–3450 (1998).

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  7. Deutsch, C., Sarmiento, J. L., Sigman, D. M., Gruber, N. & Dunne, J. P. Nature 445, 163–167 (2007).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Zehr, J. P. et al. Science 322, 1110–1112 (2008).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Foster, R. A. & O'Mullen, G. D. in Nitrogen in the Marine Environment 2nd edn (eds Capone, D. G. et al.) 1197–1218 (Elsevier, 2008).

    Book  Google Scholar 

  10. Mohr, W., Großkopf, T., Wallace, D. W. R. & LaRoche, J. PLoS ONE 5, e12583 (2010).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Angelicque E. White.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

White, A. The trouble with the bubble. Nature 488, 290–291 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11481

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11481

This article is cited by

Search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing