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C. Peter McRoy
Researcher at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Publications - 34
Citations - 3036
C. Peter McRoy is an academic researcher from University of Alaska Fairbanks. The author has contributed to research in topics: Zostera marina & Continental shelf. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 34 publications receiving 2926 citations.
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The Bering Sea Green Belt: shelf-edge processes and ecosystem production
TL;DR: The concept of a highly productive habitat along the edge of the continental shelf in the Bering Sea is based upon compelling but fragmentary and often anecdotal observations of a variety of physical and biological features acquired from many sources over many years as mentioned in this paper.
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Biological export of shelf carbon is a sink of the global CO 2 cycle
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the annual loss of organic matter from continental shelf ecosystems is far greater than in the open ocean, and that part of the loss of nearshore primary production has increased in those coastal zones where anthropogenic inorganic nutrient supplies have been consistently increasing since the industrial revolution.
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The paradox of pelagic food webs in the northern Bering Sea—III. Patterns of primary production
Alan M. Springer,C. Peter McRoy +1 more
TL;DR: In the Bering-Chukchi continental shelf, a production plume dominated by large chain-forming diatoms extends from the Gulf of Anadyr in the south to the southern Chukchi Sea in the north, has daily carbon uptake rates as high as 16 g C m −2 day −1, and has an estimated annual production of about 470 g Cm −2 year −1.
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Phosphate absorption in eelgrass1
TL;DR: It appears that eelgrass can use phosphate from sediments and from water, suggesting that in nature seagrass may act either as a sink or as a source for dissolved phosphorus in estuarine waters.
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Nutrient transfer between the seagrass Zostera marina and its epiphytes
C. Peter McRoy,John J. Goering +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the results of experiments designed to test this hypothesis and show that the high productivity of seagrass meadows is largely maintained by the nutrient pool of the sediments, since the plant system leaks phosphorus and, presumably, other nutrients, it is possible that the production of the leaf epiphytes is indirectly sustained by the nutrients in the sediment.