OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Global Biogeochemical Cycles is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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Mechanistic Constraints on the Drivers of Southern Ocean Meridional Iron Distributions Between Tasmania and Antarctica	146
Estimating Three‐Dimensional Carbon‐To‐Phosphorus Stoichiometry of Exported Marine Organic Matter	101
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Using δ¹⁵N of Amino Acids and Nitrate to Investigate Particle Production and Transformation in the Ocean: A Case Study From the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone	77
Influence of Changes in pH and Temperature on the Distribution of Apparent Iron Solubility in the Oceans	73
Emergent Climate Change Impacts on the Soil C and N Cycles in the Mojave Desert	73
Detrital Carbonate Minerals in Earth's Element Cycles	70
Estimating Mass Flux From Size‐Fractionated Filtered Particles: Insights Into Controls on Sinking Velocities and Mass Fluxes in Recent U.S. GEOTRACES Cruises	70
Global Contrasts Between Oceanic Cycling of Cadmium and Phosphate	68
Impact of the Elemental Composition of Exported Organic Matter on the Observed Dissolved Nutrient and Trace Element Distributions in the Upper Layer of the Ocean	59
Potential of Clumped Isotopes in Constraining the Global Atmospheric Methane Budget	53
Atmospheric Oxygen Abundance, Marine Nutrient Availability, and Organic Carbon Fluxes to the Seafloor	49
Constraints on the Cycling of Iron Isotopes From a Global Ocean Model	48
Nitrogen Biogeochemistry of Adjacent Mesoscale Eddies in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre	47
Microbial Adaptations Within Fine‐Scale Soil Structure Alleviate Phosphorus Limitation on Carbon Sequestration Following Afforestation	44
Mechanisms Controlling Carbon Sinks in Semi‐Arid Mountain Ecosystems	44
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Constraining the Particle Size Distribution of Large Marine Particles in the Global Ocean With In Situ Optical Observations and Supervised Learning	34
Remote Sensing Soil Freeze‐Thaw Status and North American N₂O Emissions From a Regional Inversion	32
Natural Variations in Dissolved Silicon Isotopes Across the Arctic Ocean From the Pacific to the Atlantic	32
Anthropogenically Driven Changes in the Carbon to Phosphorus Ratio of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter	31

Contrasting Sea‐Air CO₂ Exchanges in the Western Tropical Atlantic Ocean	31
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Simultaneous Production and Consumption of Soil N₂O Creates Complex Effects on Its Stable Isotope Composition	31
Observed APO Seasonal Cycle in the Pacific: Estimation of Autumn O₂ Oceanic Emissions	30
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Dissolved Carbon Export by Large River Systems Is Influenced by Source Area Heterogeneity	29
Direct and Indirect Drivers of Energy and Nutrient Availability in Freshwater Ecosystems Across Spatial Scales	29
Refractory Dissolved Organic Matter has Similar Chemical Characteristics but Different Radiocarbon Signatures With Depth in the Marine Water Column	28
Linking a Latitudinal Gradient in Ocean Hydrography and Elemental Stoichiometry in the Eastern Pacific Ocean	28
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The Role of Wildfires in the Interplay of Forest Carbon Stocks and Wood Harvest in the Contiguous United States During the 20th Century	26
Meltwater Discharge From Marine‐Terminating Glaciers Drives Biogeochemical Conditions in a Greenlandic Fjord	26
Physical Mechanisms Driving Enhanced Carbon Sequestration by the Biological Pump Under Climate Warming	26
Intercropping Legumes Improves Long Term Productivity and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks in Sub‐Saharan Africa	26
Temporal Variability of Air‐Sea CO₂ flux in the Western Tropical North Atlantic Influenced by the Amazon River Plume	26
Past and Future Climate Variability Uncertainties in the Global Carbon Budget Using the MPI Grand Ensemble	26
Distribution and Production Mechanisms of N₂O in the Western Arctic Ocean	26
Anthropogenic Carbon Increase has Caused Critical Shifts in Aragonite Saturation Across a Sensitive Coastal System	25
Constraining Global Marine Iron Sources and Ligand‐Mediated Scavenging Fluxes With GEOTRACES Dissolved Iron Measurements in an Ocean Biogeochemical Model	25
Effects of Afforestation on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Accumulation Depend on Initial Soil Nitrogen Status	25
Spatiotemporal Characterization of Mercury Isotope Baselines and Anthropogenic Influences in Lake Sediment Cores	24
Dissolved Nitrogen Cycling in the Eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Baffin Bay From Stable Isotopic Data	24
Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Budgets of Europe: Trends, Interannual and Spatial Variability, and Their Drivers	24
The Diel Cycle of Surface Ocean Elemental Stoichiometry has Implications for Ocean Productivity	24
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Interannual Variability of Marine Nitrogen Fixation in the Western Tropical Atlantic	24
Covariation of Airborne Biogenic Tracers (CO₂, COS, and CO) Supports Stronger Than Expected Growing Season Photosynthetic Uptake in the Southeastern US	23
Nitrogen Cycling in Reservoir Drawdown Areas and the Impacts on Water Quality	23
Cycling Rates of Particulate Organic Carbon Along the GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect GP15	23
Size‐Fractionated Primary Production Dynamics During the Decline Phase of the North Atlantic Spring Bloom	23
Biogeographical Classification of the Global Ocean From BGC‐Argo Floats	23
Vapor Pressure Deficit and Sunlight Explain Seasonality of Leaf Phenology and Photosynthesis Across Amazonian Evergreen Broadleaved Forest	22
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Dissolved Iron Patterns Impacted by Shallow Hydrothermal Sources Along a Transect Through the Tonga‐Kermadec Arc	22
On the Role of the Amazon River for N₂ Fixation in the Western Tropical Atlantic	22
Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainty in Global Carbon Cycle Predictions: Lessons and Perspectives From 15 Years of Data Assimilation Studies With the ORCHIDEE Terrestrial Biosphere Model	22
The Importance of Riverine Nutrient Supply for the Marine Silica Pump of Arctic Shelves: Evidence From the Laptev Sea	22
Extreme Nitrate Deficits in the Western Arctic Ocean: Origin, Decadal Changes, and Implications for Denitrification on a Polar Marginal Shelf	22
Effects of Climate Change on Peatland Reservoirs: A DOC Perspective	21
Global Nitrogen Mass Flux From the Active Freshwater Aquifer Element Pool	21
Large Methane Emissions From the Pantanal During Rising Water‐Levels Revealed by Regularly Measured Lower Troposphere CH₄ Profiles	21
Global Uptake of Atmospheric Methane by Soil From 1900 to 2100	21
Latitude, Elevation, and Mean Annual Temperature Predict Peat Organic Matter Chemistry at a Global Scale	21
The Contribution of Biotic Factors in Explaining the Global Distribution of Inorganic Carbon in Surface Soils	21
Seasonal Changes in Hydrology and Permafrost Degradation Control Mineral Element‐Bound DOC Transport From Permafrost Soils to Streams	20
A 2,000‐Year Record of Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) Colonization Shows Substantial Gains in Blue Carbon Storage and Nutrient Retention	20

Water Column Structure and Nutrient Supply on the Northwest Atlantic Shelf: A Nitrate Isotope Study	20
Organic Carbon Burial With Reactive Iron Across Global Environments	20
The Influence of Air‐Sea CO₂ Disequilibrium on Carbon Sequestration by the Ocean's Biological Pump	20
Bacterial Community Structure Modulates Soil Phosphorus Turnover at Early Stages of Primary Succession	20
Influence of Seasonal Variability in Flux Attenuation on Global Organic Carbon Fluxes and Nutrient Distributions	20
Forest Soil Carbon Efflux Evaluation Across China: A New Estimate With Machine Learning	20
Toward a Global Model for Soil Inorganic Phosphorus Dynamics: Dependence of Exchange Kinetics and Soil Bioavailability on Soil Physicochemical Properties	20
Tracing Pan‐Canadian Arctic Water Masses and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Cycling Using Stable and Radiocarbon Isotopes	19
The Global Biogeochemical Cycle of Arsenic	19
The Role of Climate, Mineralogy and Stable Aggregates for Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics Along a Geoclimatic Gradient	19
Watershed Classification Predicts Streamflow Regime and Organic Carbon Dynamics in the Northeast Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest	19
The Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle 1985–2018: Mean, Seasonal Cycle, Trends, and Storage	19
Soil Respiration Responses to Throughfall Exclusion Are Decoupled From Changes in Soil Moisture for Four Tropical Forests, Suggesting Processes for Ecosystem Models	18
Biological Carbon Pump Sequestration Efficiency in the North Atlantic: A Leaky or a Long‐Term Sink?	18
Changes in Canada's Phosphorus Cycle 1961–2018: Surpluses and Deficits	18
Global Ocean Sediment Composition and Burial Flux in the Deep Sea	18
Water Stress Dominates 21st‐Century Tropical Land Carbon Uptake	18
Biophysical Controls of Ecosystem‐Scale Methane Fluxes From a Subtropical Estuarine Mangrove: Multiscale, Nonlinearity, Asynchrony and Causality	18
Greenhouse Gas Budgets of Central and West Asia (2000–2020): A Significant Net Source to the Atmosphere	18
A Next Generation Ocean Carbon Isotope Model for Climate Studies I: Steady State Controls on Ocean ¹³C	17
Salinity Induces Allometric Accumulation of Sulfur in Plants and Decouples Plant Nitrogen‐Sulfur Correlation in Alpine and Arid Wetlands	17
The Greenhouse Gas Budget of Terrestrial Ecosystems in East Asia Since 2000	17
Bioactive Trace Metals and Their Isotopes as Paleoproductivity Proxies: An Assessment Using GEOTRACES‐Era Data	17
Meridional Survey of the Central Pacific Reveals Iodide Accumulation in Equatorial Surface Waters and Benthic Sources in the Abyssal Plain	17
Continental and Ecoregion‐Specific Drivers of Atmospheric NO₂ and NH₃ Seasonality Over Africa Revealed by Satellite Observations	17
Atypical Seasonality of the Silicon Cycle in the Yellow River Estuary and Bohai Sea Revealed by Stable Silicon Isotopes	16
Drivers of Surface Ocean Acidity Extremes in an Earth System Model	16
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Using Radiocarbon to Assess the Abundance, Distribution, and Nature of Labile Organic Carbon in Marine Sediments	16
The Deep Ocean's Carbon Exhaust	16
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Benthic Organic Matter Transformation Drives pH and Carbonate Chemistry in Arctic Marine Sediments	15
Decoupling of Barium and Silicon at the Congo River‐Dominated Southeast Atlantic Margin: Insights From Combined Barium and Silicon Isotopes	15
The Biotic‐Abiotic Control of Si Burial in Marine Carbonate Systems of the Pre‐Eocene Si Cycle	15
Why are Surface Ocean pH and CaCO₃ Saturation State Often out of Phase in Spatial Patterns and Seasonal Cycles?	15
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Electron Accepting Capacities of a Wide Variety of Peat Materials From Around the Globe Similarly Explain CO₂ and CH₄ Formation	14
Ecosystem CO₂ Exchange and Its Economic Implications in Northern Permafrost Regions in the 21st Century	14
Differential Trends in Iron Concentrations of Boreal Streams Linked to Catchment Characteristics	14
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Biodiversity and Stoichiometric Plasticity Increase Pico‐Phytoplankton Contributions to Marine Net Primary Productivity and the Biological Pump	14
More Foxes than Hedgehogs: The Case for Nitrogen Fixation in Coastal Marine Sediments	14
Global Patterns of Surface Ocean Dissolved Organic Matter Stoichiometry	14
Impact of Dynamic Phytoplankton Stoichiometry on Global Scale Patterns of Nutrient Limitation, Nitrogen Fixation, and Carbon Export	13
Nitrogen Fixation in Mesoscale Eddies of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: Patterns and Mechanisms	13
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Spatiotemporal Pattern of Ecosystem Respiration in China Estimated by Integration of Machine Learning With Ecological Understanding	13
Atmospheric N Deposition Significantly Enhanced Soil N₂O Emission From Eastern China Forests	13
The Role of Coastal Yedoma Deposits and Continental Shelf Sediments in the Arctic Ocean Silicon Cycle	13
Sectional Distribution Patterns of Cd, Ni, Zn, and Cu in the North Pacific Ocean: Relationships to Nutrients and Importance of Scavenging	13
Changing Water Chemistry in One Thousand Norwegian Lakes During Three Decades of Cleaner Air and Climate Change	13
Effects of Secondary Carbonate Precipitation and Dissolution on Changjiang (Yangtze) River Chemistry and Estimates of Silicate Weathering Rates	13
Biodegradation of Ancient Organic Carbon Fuels Seabed Methane Emission at the Arctic Continental Shelves	13
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The Impact of the Amazon on the Biological Pump and the Air‐Sea CO₂ Balance of the Western Tropical Atlantic	12
The Role of Glacier Erosion in Riverine Particulate Organic Carbon Export	12
Oxygen Dependent Temperature Regulation of Benthic Fluxes in Reservoirs	12
Unravelling Surface Seawater DMS Concentration and Sea‐To‐Air Flux Changes After Sea Ice Retreat in the Western Arctic Ocean	12
How Is the Ocean Anthropogenic Carbon Reservoir Filled?	12
Significance of Urea in Sustaining Nitrite Production by Ammonia Oxidizers in the Oligotrophic Ocean	12
Appreciating GBC Reviewers	12
Integrating Trait‐Based Stoichiometry in a Biogeochemical Inverse Model Reveals Links Between Phytoplankton Physiology and Global Carbon Export	12
A New Metric of the Biological Carbon Pump: Number of Pump Passages and Its Control on Atmospheric pCO₂	12
Recent Trends and Variability in the Oceanic Storage of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon	12
Contrasting Responses of Soil Inorganic Carbon to Afforestation in Acidic Versus Alkaline Soils	12
The Pan‐Arctic Continental Slope as an Intensifying Conveyer Belt for Nutrients in the Central Arctic Ocean (1985–2015)	12
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Soil Microbial Community Response to Permafrost Degradation in Palsa Fields of the Hudson Bay Lowlands: Implications for Greenhouse Gas Production in a Warming Climate	12
Modeling Photosynthesis and Exudation in Subtropical Oceans	12
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Relationships Between Air‐Sea CO₂ Flux and New Production in the Equatorial Pacific	12
Indian Ocean Acidification and Its Driving Mechanisms Over the Last Four Decades (1980–2019)	11

Controls on Dissolved Barium and Radium‐226 Distributions in the Pacific Ocean Along GEOTRACES GP15	11
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Uncertainties About the Role of River and Mangrove Dissolved Inorganic Carbon and Alkalinity Loads in Buffering the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon	11
Observations of Satellite Land Surface Phenology Indicate That Maximum Leaf Greenness Is More Associated With Global Vegetation Productivity Than Growing Season Length	11
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Off‐Shelf Transport and Biogeochemical Cycling of Terrestrial Organic Carbon Along the East Siberian Continental Margin	11
The Global Biogeochemical Cycle of the Rare Earth Elements	11
An Assessment of CO₂ Uptake in the Arctic Ocean From 1985 to 2018	11
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Natural and Anthropogenic Driving Forces of Carbonate Weathering and the Related Carbon Sink Flux: A Model Comparison Study at Global Scale	10
Biotic and Abiotic Controls on Dinitrogen Production in Coastal Sediments	10
Regionally Variable Contribution of Dissolved Organic Phosphorus to Marine Annual Net Community Production	10
Decadal Changes in Anthropogenic Inputs and Precipitation Influence Riverine Exports of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus, and Alter Ecosystem Level Stoichiometry	10
The Impact of Zooplankton Calcifiers on the Marine Carbon Cycle	10
Riverine Particulate Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Are Decoupled From Land Cover at the Continental Scale	10
Temperature Sensitivity of Freshwater Denitrification and N₂O Emission—A Meta‐Analysis	10
Half‐Century History of Crop Nitrogen Budget in the Conterminous United States: Variations Over Time, Space and Crop Types	10
What Controls the Large‐Scale Efficiency of Carbon Transfer Through the Ocean's Mesopelagic Zone? Insights From a New, Mechanistic Model (MSPACMAM)	10
Negligible Quantities of Particulate Low‐Temperature Pyrogenic Carbon Reach the Atlantic Ocean via the Amazon River	10
Alternate History: A Synthetic Ensemble of Ocean Chlorophyll Concentrations	10
Gradients of Anthropogenic Nutrient Enrichment Alter N Composition and DOM Stoichiometry in Freshwater Ecosystems	10
Bottom‐Up Evaluation of the Methane Budget in Asia and Its Subregions	10
Asymmetric Impacts of Diurnal Warming on Vegetation Carbon Sequestration of Marshes in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau	10
Improved Constraints on Global Methane Emissions and Sinks Using δ¹³C‐CH₄	9
Dissolved Fe in the East China Sea Under the Influences of Land Sources and the Boundary Current With Implications for Global Marginal Seas	9
Carbon Accumulation, Flux, and Fate in Stordalen Mire, a Permafrost Peatland in Transition	9
Organic Molecular Signatures of the Congo River and Comparison to the Amazon	9
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Large Soil Carbon Storage in Terrestrial Ecosystems of Canada	9
Increased Terrestrial Carbon Export and CO₂ Evasion From Global Inland Waters Since the Preindustrial Era	9
Inland Water Greenhouse Gas Budgets for RECCAP2: 1. State‐Of‐The‐Art of Global Scale Assessments	9
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Environmental Drivers of Coccolithophore Growth in the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean	9
Enhanced Biogeochemical Cycling Along the U.S. West Coast Shelf	9
Shifts in the Isotopic Composition of Nitrous Oxide Between El Niño and La Niña in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific	9
A Synthesis of Global Coastal Ocean Greenhouse Gas Fluxes	9
Hydrologic and Landscape Controls on Dissolved Organic Matter Composition Across Western North American Arctic Lakes	9
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Controls on Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes in Simulated Networks of Connected Streams and Lakes	8
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Withdrawn: Observations of Nutrient Supply by Mesoscale Eddy Stirring and Diapycnal Mixing in the Oligotrophic North Atlantic	8
Regional and Global Patterns of Apparent Organic Matter Reactivity in Marine Sediments	8
A Close Look at Dissolved Silica Dynamics in Disko Bay, West Greenland	8
Stream Nitrogen Concentrations Across Arctic Vegetation Gradients	8
Phosphate Influx and Dust Deposition Create Zonal and Meridional Biogeochemical Gradients in Trichodesmium Abundance	8
Urban Land Conversion Reduces Soil Organic Carbon Density Under Impervious Surfaces	8
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Remotely Sensing River Greenhouse Gas Exchange Velocity Using the SWOT Satellite	8
The Contribution of Anammox to Nitrogen Removal Is Greater in Bulk Soils Than in Rhizosphere Soils in Riparian Wetlands Along the Yangtze River	8
Long‐Term Changes in Concentration and Yield of Riverine Dissolved Silicon From the Poles to the Tropics	8
Particulate Cadmium Accumulation in the Mesopelagic Ocean	8
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The Importance of Water Mass Transport and Dissolved‐Particle Interactions on the Aluminum Cycle in the Subtropical North Atlantic	8
Source‐Labeled Anthropogenic Carbon Reveals a Large Shift of Preindustrial Carbon From the Ocean to the Atmosphere	8
Global Simulation and Evaluation of Soil Organic Matter and Microbial Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks Using the Microbial Decomposition Model ORCHIMIC v2.0	8
Evaluation of Biological Carbon Pump Metrics in the Subtropical Gulf of Aqaba, Northern Red Sea	8
Heat and Drought Events Alter Biogenic Capacity to Balance CO₂ Budget in South‐Western Europe	8
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Quantification of Discharge‐Specific Effects on Dissolved Organic Matter Export From Major Arctic Rivers From 1982 Through 2019	7
Tephra Deposition and Bonding With Reactive Oxides Enhances Burial of Organic Carbon in the Bering Sea	7
Interannual and Seasonal Drivers of Carbon Cycle Variability Represented by the Community Earth System Model (CESM2)	7
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Bioavailability of Macro and Micronutrients Across Global Topsoils: Main Drivers and Global Change Impacts	7
The Global Biogeochemical Cycle of Rhenium	7
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Toward a Better Understanding of the Global Ocean Copper Distribution and Speciation Through a Data‐Constrained Model	7
Changes in Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Across Yangtze River Regulated by Dam and River‐Lake Exchange	7
Electrochemical Properties of Peat Particulate Organic Matter on a Global Scale: Relation to Peat Chemistry and Degree of Decomposition	7
Mercury Burial in Modern Sedimentary Systems of the East China Marginal Seas: The Role of Coastal Oceans in Global Mercury Cycling	7
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Water Supply Processes Are Responsible for Significant Nitrogen Fluxes Across the United States	7
The Impact of Incomplete Nutrient Consumption in the Southern Ocean on Global Mean Ocean Nitrate δ¹⁵N	6
Mechanisms Underpinning the Net Removal Rates of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	6
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Permafrost Region Greenhouse Gas Budgets Suggest a Weak CO₂ Sink and CH₄ and N₂O Sources, But Magnitudes Differ Between Top‐Down and Bottom‐Up Methods	6
Spatial Variability of Dissolved Cobalt in the Indian Ocean Waters: Contrasting Behavior in the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Southern Sector of the Indian Ocean	6
Insights on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Co‐Limitation in Global Croplands From Theoretical and Modeling Fertilization Experiments	6
Indo‐Pacific Sector Dominates Southern Ocean Carbon Outgassing	6
Authigenic Iron Is a Significant Component of Oceanic Labile Particulate Iron Inventories	6
Changes in Refractory Black Carbon (rBC) Deposition to Coastal Eastern Antarctica During the Past Century	6
Mineral Soils Are an Important Intermediate Storage Pool of Black Carbon in Fennoscandian Boreal Forests	6
Iron Isotope Biogeochemical Cycling in the Western Arctic Ocean	6
Glacial Dust Surpasses Both Volcanic Ash and Desert Dust in Its Iron Fertilization Potential	6
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Water Residence Time and Temperature Drive the Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Matter in Alpine Lakes in the Tibetan Plateau	6
Arctic – Atlantic Exchange of the Dissolved Micronutrients Iron, Manganese, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper and Zinc With a Focus on Fram Strait	6
Climatic Changes in North Atlantic O₂ Amplified by Temperature Sensitivity of Phytoplankton Growth	6
The Role of Acantharia in Southern Ocean Strontium Cycling and Carbon Export: Insights From Dissolved Strontium Concentrations and Seasonal Flux Patterns	6
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Effects of Mesozooplankton Growth and Reproduction on Plankton and Organic Carbon Dynamics in a Marine Biogeochemical Model	6
Slowly Sinking Particles Underlie Dissolved Iron Transport Across the Pacific Ocean	5