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DOI	10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116118
	The oceanic biogeochemistry of nickel and its isotopes: New data from the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean biogeochemical divide
	Archer C.; Vance D.; Milne A.; Lohan M.C.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0012821X
卷号	535
英文摘要	Nickel (Ni) is important for a number of enzymes in oceanic phytoplankton. It has received less attention than some other bioactive metals because it is not reduced to extremely low dissolved concentrations in the photic zone. However, there are strong indications in previous studies that this residual pool is not bio-available. Oceanic Ni isotope data are still scarce, but have great potential for understanding this issue, as well as for understanding the Ni mass balance of the oceans now and in the past. Here, we present new concentration and isotope data for the UK GEOTRACES section at 40°S in the Atlantic (GA10). Nickel concentration data show typical nutrient-like profiles, slightly modified by variable pre-formed concentrations in sub-surface water masses, e.g. North Atlantic Deep Water. Nickel isotopes, in common with findings in previous studies, are homogeneous beneath 500 m, at about +1.3‰ in δ60Ni, in samples with Ni concentrations above 3-3.5 nM. The surface South Atlantic, however, has concentrations below 3 nM, and shows significantly higher δ60Ni, up to +1.74‰, that are closely anti-correlated with Ni concentrations. The data for the deep South Atlantic dissolved pool, with a δ60Ni = 1.31 ± 0.12‰ (average and 2SD) confirm the homogeneity of the global deep ocean, which previous data demonstrate extends all the way to the surface in the upwelling zone of the Southern Ocean south of the Polar Front. This Ni isotope composition is significantly heavier than known inputs to the oceanic dissolved pool. This mass balance requires an isotopically light sink that may be represented by sedimentary Mn-oxide associated Ni. The magnitude of the isotope fractionation implied by the upper ocean data is not consistent with plausible potential abiotic removal processes. Rather, these data are best explained by biological uptake. However, consideration of the detailed relationships between Ni concentrations and isotope compositions requires that a substantial portion of the oceanic dissolved Ni pool is not bio-available. The data are consistent either with a small preference for the light isotope during uptake (about 0.1‰) or two distinct pools of dissolved Ni, one bio-available and one strongly bound in organic complexes, with limited isotopic exchange between them. Patterns of co-variation in Ni concentrations and isotopes with the major nutrients point to strong contrasts across the Polar Front of the Southern Ocean, contrasts that exhibit both similarities and differences with those for the major nutrients and other trace metal micronutrients. South of the Polar Front, Ni is taken up in modest amounts by diatoms, without isotope fractionation. North of the Polar Front the data are most consistent with cyanobacteria as the dominant control on Ni uptake, leading to significant coupled abundance and isotope variation. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
关键词	Antarctic Polar Front GEOTRACES nickel isotopes Southern Ocean biogeochemistry
英文关键词	Biogeochemistry; Dissolution; Isotopes; Lakes; Nutrients; Oceanography; Phytoplankton; Trace elements; Antarctic polar fronts; Dissolved concentrations; GEOTRACES; Isotope fractionation; Nickel concentrations; Nickel isotopes; North Atlantic Deep Water; Southern ocean; Nickel; atmospheric chemistry; bioavailability; biogeochemistry; concentration (composition); isotopic composition; isotopic fractionation; nickel; polar front; upwelling; Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic Ocean (South); Southern Ocean; Bacillariophyta; Cyanobacteria
语种	英语
来源期刊	Earth and Planetary Science Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/202472
作者单位	Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Clausiusstrasse 25, Zürich, 8092, Switzerland; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, United Kingdom; School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Archer C.,Vance D.,Milne A.,et al. The oceanic biogeochemistry of nickel and its isotopes: New data from the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean biogeochemical divide[J],2020,535.
APA	Archer C.,Vance D.,Milne A.,&Lohan M.C..(2020).The oceanic biogeochemistry of nickel and its isotopes: New data from the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean biogeochemical divide.Earth and Planetary Science Letters,535.
MLA	Archer C.,et al."The oceanic biogeochemistry of nickel and its isotopes: New data from the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean biogeochemical divide".Earth and Planetary Science Letters 535(2020).