摘要
It has been proposed that photosynthetic plankton can be used as a biological carbon pump tp absorb and sequester carbon dioxide in the ocean.In this paper,plankton population dynamics are simulated in a single stratified water column to predict carbon dioxide sequestering due to surface iron fertilization in deep ocean.Using a predator-prey model and realistic parameter values,iron fertilization was found to only cause temporary blooms up to 5 months in duration,and relatively small increases in adsorption of atmospheric CO_(2).
