Kent A. Fanning

TL;DR: Independent data from the Gulf of Mexico are used to develop and test the hypothesis that the same sequence of physical and ecological events each year allows the toxic dinoflagellate Karenia brevis to become dominant in a global response to both desertification and eutrophication.

TL;DR: In this article, coupled biophysical models of wind and buoyancy-driven circulation, three phytoplankton groups (diatoms, K. brevis, and microflagellates), and these slope water supplies of nitrate and silicate, and selective grazing stress by copepods and protozoans found that diatoms won in one 1998 case of no light limitation by colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM).

TL;DR: In this article, the major standing stocks, fluxes and transformations of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in the pelagic regions of the North Atlantic, as one part of a larger effort to understand the entire N and P budgets in the Atlantic Ocean, its watersheds and overlying atmosphere.

TL;DR: The authors showed that summer delivery of iron, in the form of Saharan dust, may provide an explanation for Trichodesmium blooms observed in offshore waters of the West Florida shelf over the last 50 yr.

TL;DR: In this paper, global distributions of the ratios of the concentrations of nitrate + nitrite (= [N]) and phosphate (= [P]) are evaluated from Geochemical Ocean Sections Study (GEOSECS) and Transient Tracers in the Ocean (TTO) data sets.