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SUBMITTER: Sharoni S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8740700 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sharoni Shlomit S Halevy Itay I
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20211222 1
Planktonic organic matter forms the base of the marine food web, and its nutrient content (C:N:P<sub>org</sub>) governs material and energy fluxes in the ocean. Over Earth history, C:N:P<sub>org</sub> had a crucial role in marine metazoan evolution and global biogeochemical dynamics, but the geologic history of C:N:P<sub>org</sub> is unknown, and it is often regarded constant at the "Redfield" ratio of ∼106:16:1. We calculated C:N:P<sub>org</sub> through Phanerozoic time by including nutrient- a ...[more]