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Ocean Productivity

Material in this section originates from the following categories in our Subject Index:

Oceans (Productivity)
Productivity (Oceans)


Material preceded by an asterisk (*) was posted after this subject summary was written and therefore is not included in the summary.  This material will be integrated into the summary at a later date.

Summary


* -- Biological Productivity in the Coastal Arctic Ocean

* -- Primary Production in the Bering Sea

* -- A Ray of Light Cutting Through the Dark Pall of Flood Damages

* -- Climate Change and Marine Productivity

* -- Siliceous Phytoplankton of a Middle Eocene Warming Event

* -- Elevated CO2 Boosts Iron's Positive Impact on Phytoplanktonic Productivity

* -- The Impact of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment on a Major Oceanic N2-Fixing Cyanobacterium

* -- N2 and CO2 Fixation in a Unicellular Marine Cyanobacterium

The Arctic Ocean: Melting Its Way to Higher Productivity

Primary Production in the Southern Ocean: 1997-2006

* -- Power-Plant Flue Gas Enhances the Productivity of Seagrass

Rising Atmospheric CO2 Will Likely Boost Ocean Productivity

* -- Warming-Induced Increases in Ocean Productivity

Ocean Productivity in a Warming World

* -- North Atlantic Regime Shift: Is It Déjà Vu All Over Again?

Primary Productivity in a Southern Chilean Fjord

Global Ocean Productivity

Recent Increases in Arabian Sea Productivity

Primary Production in the Adriatic Sea

A Half-Century History of Chlorophyll in the Northeast Atlantic

The Effect of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment on Ocean Carbon Uptake

Phytoplankton of the Southern Ocean: 1965-2002

Ocean Productivity: Its Response to Global Warming

Atmospheric CO2 and the Glacial Southern Ocean

Biological Carbon Sequestration in the World's Oceans

Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions Enhancing Ocean Productivity?